By Tammy Joyner and Meredith Hobbs
It’s effectively impossible for a third-party candidate in Georgia to run for the U.S. House of Representatives because of an unusually restrictive ballot-access law that the state legislature enacted almost 80 years ago to keep Communists out of Congress.
The Libertarian Party of Georgia has spent the last five years fighting in court to change that–and this week it fired its latest legal salvo. The Libertarians asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 23 to re-hear Cowen v. Raffensperger, its challenge to Georgia’s stringent ballot-access requirements.
