Ross Secler and Burt Odelson recently published, “Is the Party Over? You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here: Political Party Affiliations, Trends, and Requirements After Patton v. Illinois State Board of Elections,” 51 J. Marshall L. Rev. 749 (2018) wherein they analyze the unfair and confusing restrictions on political party affiliation, which, in their current form, serve as little more than tools of political gamesmanship.
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