Critics of “top-two” sometimes argue that “top-two” is even more favorable to incumbent office-holders than normal elections are. A look at Louisiana’s U.S. House elections, 1978 through 2006, tends to confirm this criticism. Louisiana held 120 regularly-scheduled U.S. House elections … Continue reading
European political parties have traditionally chosen their nominees in party meetings, but in 2009, the British Conservative Party has been experimenting with using primaries to choose nominees. The party does this by mailing a ballot, at its own expense, to … Continue reading
The National Conference of State Legislatures’ web page has this chart, showing 2010 primary dates in each state. The chart also shows how many regularly-scheduled state legislative seats are up in each state, and whether each state is electing a … Continue reading
On October 15, the forces who placed a Referendum petition on the Washington state ballot announced that they are asking the full 9th circuit to rehear Doe v Reed. The issue is whether the names and addresses of people who … Continue reading
On October 15, a state court in Arizona halted the November 3, 2009 election for City Council in Prescott, because the ballot had omitted Paul Katan. See this story from the Prescott Daily Courier. Prescott uses two-round non-partisan elections for … Continue reading
