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Currently, Nevada has no presidential primaries, and Democratic and Republican national party rules give Nevada the privilege of holding caucuses earlier than any other caucus state except Iowa. The 2016 Nevada caucuses are expected to be held on February 20.
Notwithstanding Nevada’s special privilege for its caucuses, there are bills in both houses to scrap caucuses and hold presidential primaries on the second-to-last Tuesday of January. AB 302 already had a hearing in the Assembly Committee on March 24, and the Senate Committee will hear an identical bill, SB 421, on April 1.
The bills would move the primary for …read more

The Nevada Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections will hear SB 499 on April 1 at 3:30 p.m. The bill title says it sets up a “modified blanket primary.” It would provide that for all partisan office except President, all candidates would run in the primary. Only the top two could run in the general election, except that if the top two candidates in the primary are both in the same party, then the 2nd place finisher does not advance to the general election, and whichever candidate who is not in that same party does advance …read more

Ballot Access News March 1, 2015 – Volume 30, Number 10
This issue was printed on cream paper.
Table of Contents

CALIFORNIA COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS TOP-TWO IN A DEEPLY FLAWED DECISION
TURNOUT CHANGE
OKLAHOMA BALLOT ACCESS BILL PASSES COMMITTEE
SOUTH DAKOTA SENATE OK’s BILL TO MAKE ACCESS HARDER
BILLS TO EASE BALLOT ACCESS INTRODUCED IN FOUR MORE STATES
NEW HAMPSHIRE BALLOT ACCESS BILL LOSES IN COMMITTEE
CONSTITUTION PARTY WINS MISSOURI CASE
OTHER LAWSUIT NEWS
STRAIGHT-TICKET DEVICE BILLS
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY TIMING BILLS
RIGHT TO VOTE AMENDMENT
2014 VOTE FOR STATE SENATE
MISSOURI INDEPENDENT LEGISLATOR
MERLIN MILLER HELPS FORM A NEW POLITICAL PARTY
INDEPENDENT PARTY QUALIFIES FOR ITS OWN PRIMARY IN OREGON
AMERICANS ELECT DISQUALIFIED IN CALIFORNIA
DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND …read more

Tallahassee, Fla. – The U.S prison industrial complex is spiraling out of control as the prison crisis in America grows to pandemic proportions. While accounting for slightly less than 5 percent of the total global population, the U.S. incarcerates roughly 25 percent of people imprisoned worldwide.
What this means is that the U.S. has by far the highest incarceration rate in the world, the largest total number of prisoners and the most citizens with criminal records of any country in the world.
Startling statistics from a nation that proclaims to be “the home of the free.”
The Prison Policy Initiative reports:
The U.S. incarcerates …read more

Vancouver, Canada– A video uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, by a user named Bodhi Sattva, captured a very troubling scene that transpired on November 6, 2014. The footage captured an enraged officer refusing to tell the driver why he was being placed under arrest, verbally abusing him, and ultimately smashing the man’s window and yanking him from the vehicle.

The video begins with the officer already at the window for a traffic stop. Seconds into the video the officer begins to get aggressive with the driver by banging on the car and calling him a moron.
“Hit the brakes, you moron,” …read more

The New York Times has published Professor Brendan Nyhan’s analysis of whether divisive presidential primary contests injure the eventual presidential nominee who survives the process. Nyhan finds that a competitive presidential primary campaign does not injure that party or its nominee. Read it here. Nyhan also rebuts the idea that contested primaries force Republican nominees “to the right” of where they would be otherwise. And his analysis links to research that shows open primaries do not necessarily produce more moderate nominees.
Also, on March 14, the San Diego Union-Tribune published an op-ed by political scientists Ethan Rarick …read more

Google #DontExposeEvil Pro Peace Meme contest A week ago today we launched a Pro Peace meme contest to draw attention to the shenanigans of Google after Antiwar.com and other alternative news outlets …

Madison, AL– A federal grand jury has indicted Officer Eric Sloan Parker, 26, for civil rights violations relating to an incident captured on dashcam video February 6.
In the video, he can be seen assaulting an innocent grandfather out for a morning stroll. The attack left him temporarily paralyzed in a hospital bed, all because the elderly man could not understand English, and therefore, the officer’s commands.

Sureshbhai Patel is an Indian citizen who had come to the United States to help his son and his wife with their new baby as his son went back to school for his …read more

“This is the most troubling and outrageous conduct I have seen in my 30 years at the Hall of Justice,” Adachi said.

San Francisco, Calif. – On Thursday, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi held an impromptu press conference to make a shocking announcement. He announced that deputies at the city’s jail at the Hall of Justice were forcing inmates to participate in gladiator style combat against one another.
The deputies had been organizing the fights for their own entertainment, and then gambling on the bouts.
“I can only describe this an outrageously sadistic scenario,” said Adachi.
Four deputies were involved in organizing the …read more