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Monday, January 10th, 2000 9:30 am
Help Pass HB-672!
a bill to democratize the ballot access process

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updated January 25, 2000

My sincere thanks to everyone who wrote, faxed and called in support of HB-672 during the 1999 legislative session. Your efforts got the bill out of committee, voted on on the Senate floor and made an issue for the members of the Assembly. It also got us several mentions in the media here. We can't pass this without your help. You put the grassroots into our politics. -- Hugh Esco,  Ga. Green Party liaison to and chair, Voter Choice Coalition  first organized as the Georgia Coalition for Ballot Access

Here is what we've had to say about this bill:

GGP Press Release on Bill's Introduction:

Coalition Backs Bill to Democratize Elections

On a related issue:

Greens Challenge Election Law: Says Qualifying Fees are not Constitutional

 

If you've seen something we haven't yet, please let me know.

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"CAPITOL CORRIDORS: An occasional column reporting on behind-the-scenes

activity in the 1999 Georgia Assembly", Bill Torpy 

Atlanta Journal Constitution, Saturday February 27, 1999 Local News page B4

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Check out the fourth paragraph:

"Gold Dome Revue: Ya gotta watch 'em" by: GREG LAND

Creative Loafing February 27, 1999

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"Easier ballot access will help voter turnout" by: Hank Johnson

Athens Banner Herald Monday, March 8, 1999

 

"GEORGIA LEGISLATURE: Pay raises still alive as session nears end" Charles Walston

Atlanta Journal Constitution, Wednesday March 10, 1999 Local News page C1

 

Donzella James offers Floor Amendment for Ballot Access

The Lawmakers, GPTV,

 

"Georgia Senate Kills 3rd-Party Voting Bill" by Sean Cavanagh

The Chattanooga Times, Thursday, March 18th, 1999

a text copy is stored here.

 

The 10th Annual Golden Sleaze Awards

"A compendium of laughable legislation, arrant ineptitude, craven corruption and

outright theft served up by the 1999 session of the Georgia General Assembly"

Creative Loafing Wednesday, March 24, 1999

By Greg Land & friends

 

The "Jesse Ventura Would Kick Our Collective Ass" Award: To the majority of the House membership, who soundly defeated a bill that would have made it somewhat simpler for third-party candidates to get on the ballot. After all, we can't have just any pointy-headed yahoo who can win an election coming down there with a bunch of crazy ideas. We have our standards.

 

"THE 1999 GEORGIA ASSEMBLY: WHAT PASSED AND WHAT FAILED"

Atlanta Journal Constitution, Sunday, March 28, 1999 Local News page D7

 

 

Read the text of the bill and check its status:

Full Text of House Committee Substitute

Legislative Search Tools, including status report

 

Update: Legislative Day # 36 of 40, Wednesday, March 17th, 1999

Update: Legislative Day # 24 of 40, Monday, February 22d, 1999

Update: Legislative Day # 2 of 40, Tuesday, January 11, 2000

Update: Legislative Day # 7 of 40, Tuesday, January 25, 2000

 

Please Write / Fax / Call the following:

for complete contact info: H.GovAff

for complete contact info: H.Rules

Please copy your letters to:

and to our sponsor:

The Voter Choice Coalition
organized in 1998 as the Georgia Coalition for Ballot Access

Contacts: Patricia Cox, The Natural Law Party, 828/ 389-6257

Hugh Esco, Georgia Green Party, 800/ 447-6694 (vm & fx), 706/ 896-7464 (home) 

Michael Cartwright, Libertarian Party of Georgia, 770/ 736-7463

Anne Merkl, Georgia Reform Party, 770/ 251-7764

Ricardo Davis, U.S. Taxpayers Party, 770/ 953-1213

Johnny Plunkett, Georgia Association of Taxpayers, 770/ 436-4426

Sam Roberts, Georgia Federation of Taxpayers, 770/ 459-3483

 

Ballot Access News

Richard Winger

ban@igc.apc.org

415/ 922-9779 (voice)

415/ 441-4268 (fax)

http://www.ballot-access.org/