On March 15, Senator Kevin Raye, the President of the Maine Senate, introduced LD 1882, a bill to create a presidential primary starting in 2016. Maine in the past has not had a presidential primary and has used caucuses instead, … Continue reading
On March 14, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed LB759, which repeals the ban on out-of-state petition circulators. This appears to be the first ballot access improvement bill that has been signed into law so far this year. … Continue reading
On March 14, the Arizona Senate Government Reform Committee passed HB 2480, after first stripping out all the original contents of the bill (which concerned health insurance), and substituting some election law provisions. They require the national committee of a … Continue reading
On March 14, Americans Elect started its Texas petition drive, according to this press release. Texas had been the only state which has a party-petition procedure that Americans Elect had not yet started. A “party-petition procedure” is a petition that … Continue reading
Ezra Klein is a columnist for the Washington Post, for Bloomberg News, and a contributor to MSNBC. This Klein column discusses Americans Elect. It is especially interesting because he appears to have interviewed Eliot Ackerman, one of Americans Elect’s leaders. … Continue reading
