Timm Herdt, state editor of the Ventura County Star and author of a weekly politics column that is distributed nationally by Scripps Howard Syndicate, says in this column that California’s Proposition 14, the top-two system, should be repealed. Herdt notes that he had supported it when it was on the ballot in June 2010. Herdt(More)…
Last month, the Western Political Science Association gave the Charles Redd Award for the Best Paper on the Politics of the American West to political scientists Jack Citrin, Gabriel Lenz, and Douglas Ahler. The award was for their 2013 paper, “Do open primaries help moderate candidates? An experimental test on the 2012 California primary.” That(More)…
This September, voters in Scotland will be asked whether or not the nation should leave the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And according to a recent poll, …
On June 3, the voters of the 5th Supervisorial District of Mendocino County re-elected Dan Hamburg to the Board of Supervisors, for a second continuous term. He is a registered Green and was the Green Party’s nominee for Governor of California in 1998. County Supervisor is a non-partisan office in California. Hamburg was unopposed for(More)…
According to this story in the Oregonian, wealthy individuals have contributed $163,600 toward the Oregon initiative for a top-two system. These contributions are going to the initiative that would create the same type of system now used in Washington and California. It is not going to the rival initiative that would implement a top-two system(More)…
Seth Masket has this post at “Mischiefs of Faction”, which says that no incumbent member of Congress, or of the California legislature, was defeated in California’s top-two primary earlier this week.
On June 3, the Virginia Community College System, which includes 23 campuses, signed a consent order, greatly expanding permission for free speech activity in outdoor areas of those campuses. This is a consequence of a the federal lawsuit Parks v Members of the State Board of the Virginia Community College System, e.d., 4:14-cv-30. The old(More)…
The Tenth Circuit will hear Kobach v Election Assistance Commission on August 25, Monday. This is the case in which Kansas and Arizona are trying to force the federal government to amend the federal voter registration forms used in those states. The U.S. District Court had ruled in favor of the two states.
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On June 4, Paul Zukerberg won his lawsuit against the District of Columbia Board of Elections in the D.C. Court of Appeals. See this story. The issue is whether the 2010 ballot measure, which the voters passed, requires a 2014 election for Attorney General. The measure as described on the November 2010 ballot said the(More)…
