The coronavirus pandemic has presented the parties with an even bigger problem: minor parties now face an even greater burden of actually getting their candidates' names on every states' ballot for the Nov. 3 election.
"There are 50 different sets of laws," Rios said."And some of those laws are impossibly hard, and they serve no purpose."
The Green and Libertarian Parties teamed up to take on ballot access laws in the courts, winning a lawsuit in Illinois where a federal judge ended up significantly loosening the signature requirement for this cycle, and also ruling that so long as the parties' candidates qualified for the ballot in 2018 or 2016, they would be automatically qualified for the ballot in November 2020, too.
"Fundamentally, ballot access is a tool that's used to really keep people form having too many choices. The old parties -- they don't want you to have a lot of choices because they want you to pick their candidate," Fishman said."It's something we've struggled against for a long time so hopefully -- hopefully -- this crisis gives us an opportunity to say, 'Look, nothing is threatened by having easier ballot access requirements.
Hindman said that Americans are"afraid of enabling the 'wrong' candidate to get elected," which has made for a stable two-party system where most voters cast ballots for Democrats or Republicans, and the number of"true independents" in this country has been declining over the last one to two generations.
An attendee wearing a T-shirt in support of Gary Johnson, 2016 Libertarian presidential nominee, takes a photograph with a tablet device during a campaign event at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.
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