South Dakota State Senator Corey Brown has decided to abandon his SB 166, which would have virtually doubled the number of signatures needed for a statewide initiative. See this story, which says that the legislature received many phone calls from … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2015
On February 6, Jill Stein spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to say she is exploring whether to seek the Green Party presidential nomination. That attracted a good amount of publicity. However, many of the stories had … Continue reading
According to this story, Kansas Senator Mitch Holmes (R-St. John) will soon introduce a bill that ends the practice of rotating the names of candidates on ballots. The story does not say how the bill would determine the order of … Continue reading
Utah has been the only state in which it is impossible for a candidate to get on a partisan primary ballot unless that party’s caucus gives that candidate substantial support before the primary. In 2014 the legislature passed SB 43 … Continue reading
The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon, has this op-ed by Sal Peralta, Secretary of the Independent Party. The party recently obtained enough registrations to qualify for its own government-administered primary. Generally, minor parties in Oregon nominate by convention, although as the … Continue reading