The November 20 Los Angeles Times has this article on Americans Elect. The reporter focuses on trying to determine the motives of the people who launched it, and on balance concludes that there is nothing conspiratorial about its origins, and … Continue reading
Louisiana elects all its state officers in the odd years before presidential election years. This year the first round was on October 22, and if no one received at least 50% in the first round, a run-off was held on … Continue reading
Two leading British newspapers, the Guardian and the Observer, have jointly carried this story about U.S. politics, and about Americans Elect. One wonders what British readers think when they read that it requires 2,900,000 signatures to get on the ballot … Continue reading
On November 17, a group of voters filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, arguing that the New York legislature will very likely fail to complete the redistricting process for U.S. House and state legislative districts, and asking the Court … Continue reading
MySuburbanLife has this editorial, in support of the Green Party’s lawsuit that argues the State Board of Elections should recognize the Green Party as a qualified party for 2012 in the districts in which it polled over 5% of the … Continue reading
