Georgia Modest Ballot Access Reform Killed Because Committee Chairman is Angered by Activist Comments

A Georgia bill to modestly improve ballot access has been killed, because Rep. Mark Hamilton (R-Cumming), chair of the House Governmental Affairs Committee, is angry that minor party and independent candidates are saying the bill’s improvements aren’t good enough. See this story.

Georgia now requires a petition of 5% of the number of registered voters for district and county office. The Secretary of State’s Advisory Commission early this year recommended lowering that to 5% of the last presidential vote, and put that idea into HB 949. That represented a 25% cut in the required signatures. But now the other parts of HB 949 have been moved into HB 899, and HB 949 will be left to die. According to the story, Representative Hamilton didn’t like people advocating instead for HB 494, which removes all mandatory petitions and lets the filing fee requirement be the only barrier to November ballot access for independents and minor party candidates.


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  1. Sounds fairly petty. Didn’t realize Georgian republicans were so thinned skinned and afraid of competition.

  2. Any comment that GA is one more TYRANT gerrymander oligarchy — that needs a 1864 Gen. Sherman remedy ???

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