On June 1, leaders of Washington state’s minor parties issued a press release, emphasizing their opposition to that state’s top-two election system, and asking California voters to reject the idea. Californians will vote on June 8; the California measure is … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Caroline Lucas, the newly-elected Green Party member of the British House of Commons, recently gave her maiden speech in that chamber. Here is the text. It is endearing. … Continue reading
Gallup Polls has been tracking voter attitudes toward the Democratic Party, and toward the Republican Party, for decades. A new poll released on June 1 shows that public esteem for each of these parties is near record lows for the … Continue reading
Gautam Dutta, a California attorney and activist for electoral reform has this op-ed published in the June 1 Daily News of Los Angeles. The Daily News has the second-greatest readership of any newspaper in Los Angeles County. … Continue reading
This June 1 story give the amount spent on advertising for and against each of California’s five ballot measures for the June 8 ballot. Proposition 14, the top-two system, has received $4,536,050 from supporters, and $208,550 from opponents. It is … Continue reading
On June 1, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved in McComish v Bennett, the case from Arizona over public funding for candidates for state office. The 9th circuit had upheld Arizona’s public funding system. Here is the Court’s … Continue reading