Vermont Representative John Moran (D-Wardsboro) and eight others have introduced HB 241. Vermont already allows two parties to jointly nominate the same person, but that candidate’s name is only listed once on the November ballot, followed by the names of … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Montana Representative Michael More (R-Gallatin Gateway) has introduced HB 521, to require all state judges (except Justices of the Peace) to be elected and re-elected in partisan elections. Currently, Montana holds non-partisan judicial elections when an incumbent judge is leaving … Continue reading
A House sponsor has been found for the Pennsylvania Voter’s Act. He is Representative Eugene DePasquale (D-York). The bill has already been introduced in the Senate as SB 21. In the Senate, the bill’s sponsor is a Republican, Senator Mike … Continue reading
On February 14, the Arizona House unanimously passed HB 2335, which provides that vice-presidential nominees’ names should be printed on November ballots. Arizona and North Dakota have been the only two states that don’t print the names of vice-presidential nominees … Continue reading
On February 11, the Federal Election Commission filed this response in the U.S. Supreme Court, in Cao v Federal Election Commission, 10-776. The Court hasn’t yet decided whether to hear this case. The Republican Party argues that it should have … Continue reading