Michael Drucker has this blog post at The Independent View, describing five bills in the New York legislature that would implement ranked choice voting in New York city primaries. The bills are AB 8613, and these Senate bills: 3309, 4110, … Continue reading
The Arizona requirement for independent candidate petitions is 3% of the number of people who are registered to vote, but who are not registered as members of any qualified party. However, any registered voter may sign for an independent candidate. … Continue reading
California has 53 U.S. House districts. This year, in nine of them, no Republican filed to be on the June 5 primary ballot. In 2016, in November, there were nine U.S. House districts in California with no Republican on the … Continue reading
Several months ago, a U.S. District Court struck down the Arkansas March 1 petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates. However, the Secretary of State still believes that independent candidates in 2018 were required to file a declaration of candidacy by … Continue reading
The California Secretary of State has a semi-official list of all candidates for partisan office in the June 5, 2018 primary. See it here. To see the list for any particular office, with the addresses of each candidate, use the … Continue reading
Elizabeth May, leader of Canada’s Green Party, was arrested on March 23 at a pipeline construction site. See this story. The incident is somewhat reminiscent of the 2016 arrest of Jill Stein at a similar protest. … Continue reading