The House Elections Law Committee in New Hampshire will hear HB 1540 on Tuesday, January 23. This is the bill to provide for ranked choice voting for federal and state office. The Concord Monitor has this op-ed in support of … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Michael R. Strain, a Bloomberg View writer, here suggests that the U.S. would be better off with a multi-party system, combined with an end to a fixed term for the chief executive. … Continue reading
On January 22, the Indiana Senate Elections Committee passed SB 328 by 6-3. It lowers the number of signatures for an independent candidate, or the nominee of an unqualified party, from 2% of the last Secretary of State vote, to … Continue reading
The National Democratic Committee’s Rules & Bylaws Committee met in Washington, D.C., January 19-20, to start reviewing ideas for changes in the 2020 presidential selection process. See this story. The Committee will be reviewing ideas of the Democratic Unity Commission, … Continue reading
A U.S. District Court will hear Merced v Spano, e.d., 1:16cv-3054, on Thursday, March 29, at 3:30 pm in Brooklyn. This is the case on New York’s ban on out-of-state circulators. The Libertarian Party filed this case in 2016.