California Senator Loni Hancock and Assemblymember Mike Eng have introduced bills to let counties use Instant Runoff Voting for special elections for U.S. House and state legislature. If these bills pass, they would save money for election administrators. Almost all … Continue reading
In 2009, the California Assembly passed AB 909, which instructs precinct polling place officials that they should orally inform independent voters that they are free to choose a Democratic or a Republican primary ballot (except that independent voters can’t vote … Continue reading
Only six states still print the candidates for presidential elector on November ballots. The most populous of these six states is Arizona, which has ten electoral votes. Arizona Senator Jack W. Harper (R-Surprise) has introduced SB 1024, which provides that … Continue reading
Earlier this month, the Nevada Green Party turned in signatures so that its gubernatorial candidate, David Scott Curtis, can be on the November 2010 ballot as a Green Party nominee. Nevada has a very strange procedure for parties to get … Continue reading
On February 19, the 5th circuit asked Louisiana to respond to the Libertarian Party’s latest brief, in the case filed in 2008 over whether Bob Barr should have been on the ballot for President. The party had lost the case … Continue reading
