Maine requires a group that wishes to be a ballot-qualified party to have at least 5,000 registered members by December 1 of the odd year before an election year. The only group that tried to use this procedure for 2016 … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2015
The Commission on Presidential Debates and the other defendants in Gary Johnson et al v Commission on Presidential Debates have recently won permission to delay their Answer. The new deadline for their Answer is January 8, 2016. The Defendants include … Continue reading
On December 2, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion in League of Women Voters v Detzner, SC14-1905. Here is the 5-2 decision, which (including the dissents) is 127 pages long. The majority agrees with the lower state court’s plan … Continue reading
On December 2, two organizations that advocate for voting rights filed a lawsuit against Alabama’s requirement that voters at the polls must show certain kinds of government photo-ID. The case is Birmingham Ministries and NAACP v State of Alabama, northern … Continue reading
Johns Creek, Georgia, held run-off elections for city council on December 1. Chris Coughlin, a Libertarian Party member, won the race for the special term, for city council post 2. But he lost the race for the full term. He … Continue reading