Jim Bennett, a former Secretary of State of Alabama, has this column in the Birmingham News. The last few paragraphs seem to endorse Instant Runoff Voting, at least in primaries, so that primary run-offs can be abolished. Thanks to Rick … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2016
Bebe Heiskell, County Commissioner for Walker County, Georgia, will leave the Republican Party and run for re-election as an independent this year. She has been the sole commissioner for Walker County starting in 2000. See this story. Walker County is … Continue reading
Morris Fiorina, a political science professor at Stanford, says in this interview that a major party might get a presidential nominee who is better at governing, if it didn’t use presidential primaries and caucuses across the nation to choose its … Continue reading
Politico has this interactive map of the U.S. Click on any state to see the 2016 presidential primary or caucus results, for those states that have already voted. … Continue reading
On March 9, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court was set to hear a challenge to John Kasich’s Pennsylvania presidential primary petition. He needed 2,000 signatures and submitted 2,184. However, the challenge was postponed while a higher court will consider whether the … Continue reading