Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke) has filed a 2017 bill to convert all partisan elections (except presidential elections) to a top-two system. It is HB 541 and is a proposed constitutional amendment. See this story. The story is incorrect when … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2016
On September 19, Darrell Castle, Constitution Party presidential nominee, and Naomi Spencer Daly, Socialist Equality Party nominee for state legislture, sued the West Virginia Secretary of State for removing them from the ballot. Daly v Tennant, s.d., 3:16cv-8981. The case … Continue reading
Laurence Kotlikoff is an economist who is filing to be a write-in presidential candidate in every state that has procedures for write-in presidential candidates to file to have their write-ins counted. On September 19, the Georgia Secretary of State told … Continue reading
The Dallas Morning News has this story about Rocky De La Fuente’s lawsuit against the Texas ballot access law for independent presidential candidates. … Continue reading
On September 13, both sides in the lawsuit Soltysik v Padilla, 16-55758, now pending in the Ninth Circuit, agreed to mediate the case. The mediation conference is set for September 27. The issue is whether members of unqualified parties may … Continue reading