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IW: The Green and Libertarian Parties of Cennecticut have sued to overturn this discriminatory law. Will Nader take to task Public citizen, which he founded?
Bizarrely – or some would say intentionally – Connecticut passed a law that substantially favors major party candidates over minor party or independent candidates.
How?
Well, to gain public funding, all candidates must raise a certain amount of money – say $15,000 – from small contributions – $100 or less.
Under the Arizona and Maine laws, that’s it.
Meet it and you can collect the public funds.
And under the Connecticut law, that’s all the Democratic and Republican candidates have to do – raise the certain number of $100 contributions and they are in.
They too can collect public funds.
But under the Connecticut law, minor party candidates and independents have to show public support by raising the small contributions.
But then they must do more.
They have to gather a certain number of signatures – or show a certain level of voter support from past elections to qualify for the public funding.
via Russell Mokhiber: Hopeless Candidates.
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