On April 3, Green Party member Yogesh Chawla was elected to the Dane County, Wisconsin, Board of Supervisors, from district 6. He defeated his opponent by 52.6% to 47.4%. The election was non-partisan. … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2018
California is the only state that prints a candidate’s occupation on the ballot. This Sacramento Bee story discusses the pros and cons of that policy. … Continue reading
California held special elections on April 3 for three vacant Assembly seats. Here are the unofficial election returns (scroll down). Democrats won the 54th district seat. In the 39th and 45th districts, no one got a majority so a run-off … Continue reading
Joe Mathews, who writes about California government and politics, here writes about how California’s top-two system injures independent candidates. … Continue reading
On April 3, a Maine state trial court issued an opinion in Committee for Ranked-Choice Voting v Dunlap, Kennebec Co., cv-18-24. See this story, which has a copy of the opinion. The opinion says the state must use ranked-choice voting … Continue reading