On February 22, the Minnesota Democratic and Republican Parties notified the Secretary of State that they want the 2020 presidential primary to be on March 3. The law that created Minnesota’s presidential primary, passed in 2016, gave the qualified parties the option to choose a different date, if they agreed with each on the alternate date. But instead they settled on March 3.
Fair to say that March 3rd is shaping up to be a pretty big Presidential primary day. The list of states either going on March 3rd or assumed to be going on 3/3 (via GreenPapers): Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
So, it’s the 3/1/16 lineup, only without Arkansas (probably) and with North Carolina (who could be moving up).
The 5 states who went on March 15th 2016 have split up, with Missouri going on March 10th, Ohio assumed to be going on March 10th, North Carolina moving up, but Florida/Illinois could be joined by Arizona on March 17th. A lot of the delegates could be off the board by March 17th.
But I think the only states holding Congressional primaries in March would be Alabama, California, North Carolina(?), Texas, and Illinois.
I’d think there’d be some polling site conflicts trying to hold an election on St. Patrick’s Day but Illinois has done it over and over so they’re used to it.
Dear BH, thanks for this interesting detail.
FACTIONS of PUBLIC Electors-Voters in each State continue NOT to be independent empires in the PUBLIC election process.
See also the two NO title of nobility clauses — NO special powers for some folks.
@BH,
Does Illinois permit alchoholic beverages to be sold on election day?
Since the USA gerrymander Congress HACKS have taken over the USA economy since 1861/1917/1929/1941 —
the State Legisatures gerrymander HACKS now play their useless ballot access games — primary dates, petitions/fees, etc. — to make them feel important.
NO primaries.
PR and AppV
March will be interesting 🙂