# Richard Winger **Status: stub — expand.** Publisher and editor of **Ballot Access News**, the monthly newsletter that has been the field's record of ballot-access law, litigation and party qualification status since 1985. Based in San Francisco; the newsletter is self-published and subscriber-funded, with a daily web edition alongside the print issue. **Why he is a vault source rather than a subject.** No government body compiles the figures this vault repeatedly needs — how many states each minor party is on the ballot in, how many statewide races carry only two major-party nominees, how many removal challenges each party filed in a cycle, and when a minor party or independent last won a constitutional ballot-access case in a given state. Winger compiles all four, by hand, and every count in circulation traces back to him. Claims sourced to him are therefore carried **with his name attached**, not as agency data. Filed as a person with the publication as an alias, following the [[Heather Cox Richardson]] pattern: a one-person newsletter is one page, framed as both subject and source stream. See [[How a Candidate Gets on the Ballot]], which draws its 2026 counts from the August and September 2026 issues.