Professor Lawrence Lessig is actively working to create a SuperPAC that would spend its money to help congressional candidates who will work to pass a public funding bill in 2015. The SuperPac has been soliciting pledges. The pledges will not be payable unless the effort reaches a goal of $5,000,000 in pledges by the end(More)…
Some Norwegian voters in 2011 and 2013 were permitted to vote using the internet. However, Norway has decided to send the experiment, for the reasons explained in this BBC article. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
Mike Myers is this year’s only independent candidate for Governor of South Dakota. According to this story, his Lieutenant Governor running mate must drop out of the race for health reasons, and the Secretary of State says Myers can’t replace him. However, federal courts in Virginia and Florida have ruled that if states permit qualified(More)…
On July 3, James T. Parker, an independent incumbent on the New Mexico Public Education Commission, filed a lawsuit against the state law that requires him to submit the signatures of 3% of the last gubernatorial vote (within the district in which he is running), whereas minor party nominees need a petition of 1% of(More)…
On July 2, some Libertarian Party candidates, and an independent candidate, filed a federal lawsuit against the Virginia law that always puts the Democratic and Republican nominees on the ballot on the top-most position. Sarvis v Judd, eastern district. Here is a copy of the 17-page Complaint. Check back here to learn the case number(More)…
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder will preside over a trial that starts on July 7 and is expected to last all week, in the lawsuits filed against voting rights restrictions passed by the 2013 session of the North Carolina legislature. One of those cases is North Carolina NAACP v McCrory; another was filed by(More)…
On July 1, at 11:13 a.m., the California Secretary of State posted election returns from the June 3 primary, including the State Controller race. Here are the results. One Democrat, Betty Yee, defeated another Democrat for second place by only 481 votes, out of over 4,000,000 cast.
On July 1, some Mississippi voters who support Chris McDaniel for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate filed a federal lawsuit, to help them obtain evidence that the June 24 run-off results should be overturned. True the Vote v Hosemann and the Republican Party of Mississippi, northern district, 3:14cv-144. The June 24 Republican runoff results(More)…
The baseball team was up and running again for a new season and we had a good feeling about our chances in the lower league. We got a new recruit …
A social experiment occurred last week in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This experiment took place during the huge gathering that is the Porcupine Freedom Festival. The Porcupine Freedom …
