A federal judge in Georgia on Thursday struck down the state’s ballot access laws as unconstitutionally restrictive and permanently barred the secretary of state from requiring political organizations that want to place candidates on statewide presidential ballot to obtain signatures from 1 percent of the state’s registered voters.
Instead, U.S. District Judge Richard Story lowered the bar for the 2016 presidential race from more than 50,000 signatures to 7,500.
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