New Mexico Representative Edward Sandoval (D-Albuquerque) has introduced HB 328, which moves the petition deadline for a newly-qualifying party from April to late July. The bill exists because last year, the April petition was struck down. HB 328 expresses the … Continue reading
The Hill has this article, giving more detail about H.R. 20, the bill introduced yesterday for public funding of congressional campaigns. The text of the bill will be made available inside this blog post when possible. … Continue reading
Bills have been introduced in both houses of the Tennessee legislature to return Tennessee to its pre-1961 ballot access rules for new and minor parties. As was the case before 1961, parties could be recognized if they filed paperwork identifying … Continue reading
On February 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected the federal government’s request that the lawsuit Tuaua v U.S.A. be summarily rejected. The issue is whether persons born in American Samoa are citizens by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment, which … Continue reading
On February 5, U.S. District Court Judge Eric Melgren signed an order restricting the scope of the Kansas-Arizona challenge to the Election Assistance Commission’s decision not to allow those two states to amend the federal voter registration postcard form. The … Continue reading
