New York will soon hold a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 20th district (Hudson Valley). Qualified parties choose nominees in special elections by party meeting. The Republican and Conservative Parties have already nominated Jim Tedisco. The … Continue reading
On February 17, the Virginia Senate Privileges & Elections Committee passed HB 2642. However, the Committee unanimously deleted the part of the bill that bans paying petition circulators on a per-signature basis. The remainder of the bill concerns deleting deceased … Continue reading
Recently, two election law bills have been introduced in the West Virginia legislature that are clearly unconstitutional. Senators Robert Williams (D-Bridgeport) and Robert Plymale (D-Ceredo) have introduced SB 271, to require declared write-in candidates to pay a filing fee. West … Continue reading
On February 16, the Indiana State Senate Elections Committee passed SCR28, asking the Legislative Council to do a 2-year study of whether Indiana should move its presidential primary from May to an earlier month. Indiana’s presidential primary has been in … Continue reading
On February 17, Indianapolis city councilmember Edward Coleman publicly announced that he had left the Republican Party and joined the Libertarian Party. Indianapolis, which has a city-county merged government (Marion County-Indianapolis), has partisan elections. Coleman is one of the 4 … Continue reading
