On June 2, the government of Canada, which is controlled by the Liberal Party, agreed with Canada’s other parties that a new commission to study instant runoff voting and proportional representation should itself be composed proportionally. Previously the government insisted … Continue reading
John Pickerill, chair of the Montgomery County, Indiana, Republican Party, has left the Republican Party. He has become a Libertarian Party nominee for state legislature this year. See this story. … Continue reading
On June 2, the Third Circuit issued a 31-page opinion in Constitution Party of Pennsylvania v Cortes, 15-3046. It says that the U.S. District Court decision last year, invalidating Pennsylvania’s system that puts petitioning groups in danger of having to … Continue reading
Ilya Shapiro has this piece in USA Today, suggesting that three individuals might receive electoral votes in November 2016, thus depriving any candidate of a majority in the electoral college. He suggests the third person to receive electoral votes might … Continue reading
For recent elections, exit polling in the United States has been mostly done by Edison Research, headquartered in New Jersey. Edison contracts with five television networks and the Associated Press to do the work of exit polling. Last month, when … Continue reading
