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Posted on The Ninth Circuit website has posted the audio for the May 6 oral argument in Montana Green Party v Jacobsen, 20-35340. Listen via this link. It lasts 36 minutes. The case was filed in 2018 against the unequal distribution requirement for petitions to recognize a new party. The U.S. District Court had upheld it, even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that unequal distribution requirements for statewide petitions violate “one person, one vote.” The Montana party petition requires a certain number of signatures in each of 33 state house districts, but the number varies, even though the districts are approximately equal in population. Some districts require as few as 55 signatures; others as many as 150. No other state has such a peculiar distribution requirement. ....
Legislation signed into law last week allows any Montana voter to bring a petition placing a minor party on the ballot, which Republicans framed as fixing a deficiency in state code that thwarted their attempt to qualify the Green Party for the 2020 general election. Senate Bill 350, sponsored by Sen. Greg Hertz, R-Polson, was among a handful of measures requested by the new Republican Secretary of State, Christi Jacobsen, this past legislative session. It also sets out deadlines for petitions that seek to place a third party on the ballot for statewide elections. Last year, the state Supreme Court ruled 5-2 against then-Secretary of State Corey Stapleton and tossed the Green Party off the 2020 general election ballot, finding the third party hadnât authorized a signature-gathering effort bankrolled by the Montana GOP. Minor parties are sometimes seen as siphoning votes away from the two major parties, and Democrats have argued the left-leaning party s inclusion was d ....
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