To improve the democratic process, scrap filing fees

Published March 16, 2021 2:00pm ET



If you wanted to run for one of the two vacant seats in the House of Representatives, it would not be cheap to get on the ballot.

Louisiana has two congressional special elections set to take place this Saturday, one in the 2nd District and the other in the 5th District, and while each race attracted several candidates, each candidate had to pay in $900 filing fees to make it on the ballot, according to the Louisiana secretary of state’s office. That’s in addition to the requirement that he or she must collect at least 1,000 signatures.

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