On March 9, Congressman Steve Israel (D-Long Island, New York) introduced HB 4183, which sets uniform hours for federal elections all across the 48 lower states. Election day would be the first Saturday and the first Sunday after the first … Continue reading
Maine not only requires a newly-qualifying party to submit a petition signed by 5% of the last gubernatorial vote, for full party status; the state also requires the group to then hold a town caucus in each of Maine’s sixteen … Continue reading
Josh Goodman has this article in Governing Magazine, showing how state officials who have the authority to write the title and summary of ballot measures (determining what language appears on the ballot) sometimes abuse that power. Although Goodman does not … Continue reading
Mark Siegel, an expert in national party convention rules, has this column in Huffington Post, suggesting that if fewer than half the delegates at the Republican national convention are loyal to Mitt Romney, the convention credentials committee might very well … Continue reading
Mari Bennett, a well-known criminal defense attorney in Houston, Texas, recently said in his blog, “Defending People”, that he has decided to seek the Libertarian Party nomination for Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, a statewide partisan judicial post. … Continue reading
