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'''''Ballot Access News''''' is a United States–based website and monthly online and print [[newsletter]] edited and published by Bill Redpath and [[Richard Winger]].

==History==
[[Richard Winger]], an expert on [[ballot access]] law in the United States, started the newsletter to advocate "fair and equitable ballot access laws" in 1985.<ref name="searcher">{{citation |author=McDermott, Irene E. |date=January 1, 2004 |title=One little, two little, three little candidates: the presidential primaries on the Web |url=|url-access= |access-date= |work=Searcher |via= |quote=''Ballot Access News'': This respected publication—founded in 1985 by Libertarian activist Richard Winger—tracks the attempts of third-party and independent candidates for various offices to secure ballot access in the 50 states. The site also tracks changes in the law, court challenges, and other interesting tidbits of third-party news...}}{{dead link|date=July 2021}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=April 2024}}

On June 1, 2023, Richard Winger announced that Bill Redpath, former chair of the [[Libertarian National Committee]], would replace him as editor of the newsletter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Winger |first=Richard |date=2023-06-01 |title=Personnel Change for Ballot Access News |url=https://ballot-access.org/2023/06/01/personnel-change-for-ballot-access-news/ |access-date=2023-08-13 |website=Ballot Access News |language=en-US}}</ref> However, Winger continues to write as an editor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-13 |title=Author Archives: Richard Winger |url=https://ballot-access.org/author/egarris/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=Ballot Access News |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Content==
''Ballot Access News'' reports on [[State court (United States)|state]] and [[United States federal courts|federal court]] decisions,<ref name="searcher"/>{{Verify source|date=April 2024}} compares American ballot access laws to those of other [[Democracy|democratic]] nations,<ref>{{cite web |author=Avlon, John P. |date=December 30, 2011 |title=How ballot access laws hurt voters |url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/29/opinion/avlon-ballot-access/ |access-date=April 25, 2012 |work=CNN |type=Opinion |quote=The United States is the only nation in the world, save Switzerland, that does not have uniform federal ballot access laws, according to Ballot Access News, a website run by Richard Winger that is dedicated to the issue.}}</ref> covers developments on electoral systems such as [[instant-runoff voting]], and documents the number of votes [[Independent politician|independent]] and [[Third party (United States)|minor party]] candidates receive.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nash |first=Phil Tajitsu |date=January 21, 2004 |title=Washington Journal; The Primary Season Begins |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-92202122.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111044543/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-92202122.html |archive-date=November 11, 2013 |access-date=April 25, 2012 |work=[[AsianWeek]] |quote=''Ballot Access News'' is the place where third parties across the political spectrum go to see how others have fared in trying to break the stranglehold of the two currently-dominant American political parties.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Breidenbach |first=Michelle |date=September 5, 2002 |title=Reason to follow in Dad's footsteps |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-91123552.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126002505/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-91123552.html |archive-date=January 26, 2013 |access-date=April 25, 2012 |work=[[The Post-Standard]] |quote=A new report from ''Ballot Access News'' shows the Green Party as the only national political party to gain members in the last two years}}</ref> The newsletter also records the activities of the [[Coalition for Free and Open Elections]], an interest group of minor party members and others working together on ballot access law reform issues.<ref>{{cite book| title=Democracy's Moment: Reforming the American Political System for the 21st Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hIMWygp4rxIC&q=%22Ballot+Access+News%22&pg=PA57| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|author=Hayduk, Ronald|author2=Kevin Mattson|year=2002|page=57|isbn=978-0-7425-1750-9|author2-link=Kevin Mattson}}</ref>

==Notable citations==
Reporting by ''Ballot Access News'' has been cited by [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]],<ref>{{cite news |date=August 8, 2016 |title=How an Independent Candidate for President Can Enter Now and Compete |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/independent-candidate-president-enter-now-compete/story?id=41206397 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]}}</ref> ''[[Politico]]'',<ref>{{cite news |last=Scher |first=Bill |date=April 19, 2020 |title=Will the Pandemic Keep Third Parties Off the 2020 Ballot? |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/19/coronavirus-election-2020-third-party-libertarian-green-trump-biden-193013 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref> [[Reuters]],<ref>{{cite news |date=October 11, 2012 |title=Roseanne Barr among presidential candidates on Florida ballot |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-campaign-barr-idUKBRE89A1FO20121011 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> and the ''[[Washington Post]].''<ref>{{cite news |date=February 28, 2020 |title=For the first time, there are fewer registered Republicans than independents |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/28/first-time-ever-there-are-fewer-registered-republicans-than-independents/ |newspaper=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref>

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