On June 22, the Arizona Senate passed two election law bills. SCR1025 asks the voters in 2010 if they wish to repeal the state’s public funding program for candidates for state office. It passed 17-12. SB 1091 is the Secretary … Continue reading
The bill in the U.S. House for a popular vote on Puerto Rico’s future status, HR 2499, now has 147 co-sponsors. Nine more co-sponsors were gained in the last 3 days of last week. The probable confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor … Continue reading
The June 22 New York Times has this editorial, endorsing Congressmember Rush Holt’s bill to require a paper trail for vote-counting machines. That bill is HR 2894. … Continue reading
On June 20, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed HB 1193, which relaxes the deadline for qualified parties to certify the names of their presidential and vice-presidential nominees. This bill probably would never have been passed if Bob Barr had not … Continue reading
The June 21 issue of Atlanta Progressive News has this story about the ballot access case in Georgia, Coffield v Handel. Thanks to Kimberly Wilder of IndependentPoliticalReport for the link. The case was filed by Faye Coffield, who tried to … Continue reading
