Texas Representative Mike Lang (R-Eastland) has introduced HB 377. It would add a question about an applicant’s party registration on the Texas voter registration application. It would also provide that only party members could vote in primaries. It would also … Continue reading
Effective with the 2020 election, Texas will no longer have a straight-ticket device, thanks to a bill that passed in 2017. However, State Senator Borris L. Miles (D-Houston) has filed a bill to keep the device for all future elections. … Continue reading
On January 15, the Virginia House Privileges and Elections Committee defeated SB 1002 by a vote of 11-3. It would have let each U.S. House district elect its own presidential elector, as is done in Maine and Nebraska. The author … Continue reading
Washington State Senator Patty Kuderer (D-Bellevue) has introduced SB 5074. It would provide that a presidential elector who did not vote for the presidential candidate who received the most popular votes in the state would be replaced. All parties, and … Continue reading
Independent Maine Representative Kent Ackley, and nine other Maine legislators, have introduced LD 211. It would allow voters who are not registered in a qualified party to vote in any partisan primary they wish. Here is the text. … Continue reading
