According to this article, the New York city council is studying a bill that would use Instant-Runoff Voting for partisan primaries for citywide office. If the bill passes, voters would then vote on whether to approve the idea.
With another national identification scheme I told Congress to oppose National ID schemes. Please do the same. You may borrow from or copy this letter… Stop the FBI’s Next …
On June 9, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen J. Murphy ordered that the Michigan Secretary of State is permitted to respond to the request for reconsideration in Erard v Michigan Secretary of State, eastern district, 12-cv-13627. Most of the time, when plaintiffs lose and then ask for reconsideration, the court denies reconsideration without even asking(More)…
Fairvote has this thoughtful analysis of California’s top-two system, published on June 11. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
North Dakota holds primaries for all qualified parties, and no one running for statewide office can appear on the ballot in November if he or she ran in the primary and failed to get at least 300 primary votes. All three Libertarians running for statewide office in the June 10, 2014 primary have between 900(More)…
On June 10, Georgia filed this brief in Green Party of Georgia v Kemp, 1:12cv-1822, northern district. The issue is whether Georgia’s presidential ballot access procedures are too difficult. The state says that the 11th circuit upheld Florida’s 3% petition in 1983, but the state fails to explain that at the time, Florida had a(More)…
When summer arrived I got the best surprise when my mother tells me that she will be coming to visit for my 40th birthday. I hadn’t seen her in over …
On June 9, Tom Ervin, a former Republican state legislator, submitted over 20,000 signatures to qualify as an independent candidate for Governor of South Carolina. The state requires 10,000 signatures. Assuming the petition is approved, Ervin will be the first independent gubernatorial candidate to appear on a South Carolina government-printed ballot. South Carolina did not(More)…
Mike LaForest is a Green Party nominee for lower house of the Wisconsin legislature. On June 5, a Democratic Party official filed a challenge to his general election petition. LaForest needs 200 valid signatures and submitted 284. The challenge seems to lack merit. But if it succeeds, the Democratic incumbent will be the only name(More)…
The House undermined NSA reform. But the Senate can still do something. ACTION ITEM I wrote Congress to protect Internet Freedom using DownsizeDC.org’s campaign. Please do the same. You …
