Ballot Access News
The Maryland State Board of Elections announced on August 10 that independent candidate Neal Simon has enough valid signatures to be on the ballot for U.S. Senate. The requirement is 10,000 signatures; Simon submitted 17,000. See this story.
The Maryland State Board of Elections announced on August 10 that independent candidate Neal Simon has enough valid signatures to be on the ballot for U.S. Senate. The requirement is 10,000 signatures; Simon submitted 17,000. See this story.
Simon is one of the nineteen candidates backed by Unite America
(formerly the Centrist Project). He is also the first statewide
independent candidate to take advantage of the 2017 liberalization of
the ballot access law, which lowered the number of signatures from 1% of
the registered voters (approximately 45,000 signatures) to exactly
10,000 signatures. That change was prompted by a lawsuit, Dorsey v
Lamone, which received financial support from COFOE (the Coalition for
Free & Equal Elections).
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