{"id":21920,"date":"2017-04-24T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21920"},"modified":"2017-04-24T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:15:53","slug":"third-party-candidates-to-have-greater-ballot-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21920","title":{"rendered":"Third-party candidates to have greater ballot access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill intended to ease ballot access for third-party political candidates was passed by the Legislature April 24.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20131\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20131\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20131\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenEbke_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senebke_inline\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Laura Ebke&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenEbke_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20131\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenEbke_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Laura Ebke\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenEbke_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenEbke_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Laura Ebke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under current law, a candidate who is a registered voter of a particular political party may be placed on a primary election ballot in Nebraska if the party received at least 5 percent of the total votes cast in either of the two previous statewide elections.<\/p>\n<p>LB34, introduced by Crete Sen. Laura Ebke, automatically allows access to the primary election ballot if a party has at least 10,000 registered members as indicated by state voting records.<\/p>\n<p>Ebke said the bill would allow maintenance of ballot access for parties so that they can field candidates at all levels in Nebraska primary elections.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed 48-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill intended to ease ballot access for third-party political candidates was passed by the Legislature April 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-21920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-laura-ebke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21923,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21920\/revisions\/21923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}