Texas legislators are already introducing bills for the 2011 session. State Senator Jeff Wentworth (R-San Antonio) has introduced SB 139, to abolish the straight-ticket device.
Monthly Archives: November 2010
The Hartford Courant has this story about Connecticut’s decentralized election system, in which the Secretary of State has no power over the administration of federal and state elections, relative to the town clerks. As the story says, this is the … Continue reading
David F. Nolan, who founded the Libertarian Party along with a group of others in Nolan’s living room, died on November 21 at the age of 66. He had just completed a vigorous and relatively successful election campaign for the … Continue reading
On November 17, the United States government filed this brief in opposition, in Clemons v U.S. Department of Commerce, 10-291. This is the case that says that “one person, one vote” principles require that the size of the U.S. House … Continue reading
The Libertarian Party 2012 presidential convention will be in Las Vegas, May 4-6, 2012. This is the earliest the Libertarian presidential convention has been since the 1992 presidential election, when the national convention was in September 1991. The latest Libertarian … Continue reading
Independent Political Report has been live-blogging the meeting of the Libertarian Party national committee, which is meeting in New Orleans November 20-21. It appears that Las Vegas will be the site of the 2012 presidential convention. There doesn’t seem to … Continue reading