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Washington, DC: Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader and three Texas voters seeking to be his presidential electors, filed suit today against the State of Texas for preliminary and injunctive relief against the State’s ballot access law. The suit, Nader et al, v. Connor, filed in federal court in Austin, notes that the campaign has already collected in excess of 50,000 signatures and urges the Court to find the statute unconstitutional and discriminatory in three respects.
Texas has the earliest due date of any state, May 10. Forty-six states have deadlines of July, August, September or later. The early due date is not needed to regulate ballot access and therefore is unconstitutional.
It is unconstitutional for Texas to require Independent candidates to collect 64,076 signatures, nearly 20,000 more valid signatures than Third Party candidates, which must collect 45,540.
It is unconstitutional for Texas to require Independent candidates to collect signatures in 60 days, two weeks less time than Third Party candidates, which have 75 dayshttp://www.votenader.org/
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