On July 21, the Arizona State Court of Appeals ruled that a trial should be held in Chavez v Brewer, 1 CA-cv-06-0575. The issue is whether the state’s electronic vote-counting machines produce accurate results. The lower court had refused to … Continue reading
Filing for Minneapolis city elections closed on July 21. The city is using Instant-Runoff Voting for the first time this year. The election is November 3. There will be no September primary, as there always has been in the past. … Continue reading
Arizona releases new voter registration data each calendar quarter. The July 1 figures show that the only qualified party that has gained registration share since the April 1 tally is the Libertarian Party, which went from .656% to .686%. The … Continue reading
On July 7, Jana Kemp declared that she will run for Governor of Idaho in 2010 as an independent candidate. She was a Republican state legislator after the 2004 election, but she had been defeated for re-election in 2006 by … Continue reading
Alabama is one of the states that fills vacant legislative seats with a special election. However, it turns out that, in Alabama, when only one party nominates anyone for that special election, and no independent files, the party nominee is … Continue reading
