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The Houston Chronicle has this interesting article about House Bill 2504, which has passed the House and which both helps and harms minor parties. It helps by lowering the vote test from 5% at the last election, to 2% at … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2019
On May 1, the Nevada Secretary of State released new registration data. The state releases this data every month. See it here. The Libertarian Party is ballot-qualified only because its registration is above 1% of the number of registered voters. … Continue reading
On May 10, state officials from Ohio and Michigan asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay recent decisions of 3-judge U.S. District Courts concerning redistricting. Both of the lower court recent decisions ordered the state in question to redraw U.S. … Continue reading
South Africa held a parliamentary election on May 8, to fill the 400 seats in its national legislative body. Fourteen parties won at least one seat, under the country’s proportional representation system. However, the ruling party won a majority of … Continue reading
On May 10, the Texas House passed HB 2504. It requires candidates nominated in convention to pay filing fees. Currently only primary candidates pay filing fees, because Texas filing fees were always intended to help pay for the election administration … Continue reading