On May 6, Michael Chamness filed his motion for summary judgment in Chamness v Bowen, the federal case against two particular details of the California top-two system. The case attacks California’s discriminatory policy on ballot labels. It also attacks the … Continue reading
Dr. Edward Shadid, 43, a spinal surgeon, was elected to the city council of Oklahoma City on April 5, 2011. The election was non-partisan. He had run for the legislature as a Green Party nominee in 2010, and had polled … Continue reading
Ruth Ellen Brosseau is a newly elected member of the Canadian parliament. Here is just one of many articles about her. She was a New Democratic Party nominee from a Quebec district, and she won, even though she never believed … Continue reading
On May 6, the New Jersey Supreme Court refused to hear Layton v Lewis, the case involving whether former Olympic track star Carl Lewis really was a resident of New Jersey during the preceding four years. Lewis is trying to … Continue reading
On May 6, some potential future candidates filed a lawsuit in Arizona state court, seeking to block a scheduled 2012 vote of the people on whether to shut off financing for public funding of candidates. See this story. The lawsuit … Continue reading
