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Article: Ballot access on the '96 ticket. (third parties want a chance)(includes a related article on how ballot access requirements differ by state)(Cover Story)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- September 11, 1995
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It might be fair to call Richard Winger a man obsessed. The editor of a small, information-dense newsletter, Ballot Access News, he is director of the Coalition for Free and Open Elections, based in San Francisco. Winger is an expert on ballot-access laws, a man who readily reels off arcane statistics, complex court decisions and obscure electoral facts dating from the early 1800s.
And Winger is not alone. "It's the only thing I seem to be talking about these days," says Scott Becker, cofounder of Marylanders for Democracy, a new grassroots group devoted to ballot-access issues. "I live, breathe and sleep ballot access."
Groups like Becker's are springing up ...