Bills have recently been introduced in Oregon, Texas, and Washington, to move the presidential primaries to earlier months. The Oregon bills, HB 2107 and HB 2279, move the entire primary from May to March. The Texas bill, HB 725, moves … Continue reading
Nebraska Senator Justin Wayne (D-Omaha) has introduced LD 98. It lowers the number of signatures for a non-presidential independent candidate for statewide office from 10% of the number of registered voters, to 4,000 signatures. The state agreed last year not … Continue reading
Katrina vanden Heuvel has this article in The Nation, defending New York’s fusion law. The article says that few legislators want to repeal fusion, but it also says if Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to ban fusion in New York, he … Continue reading
On January 16, independent congressional candidate David Gill filed a notice of appeal in his ballot access case, which challenges the Illinois petition requirement for U.S. House, 5% of the last vote cast. No one has used this petition successfully … Continue reading
In November 2018, the race for South Carolina Agriculture Commissioner was between the nominees of the Republican, Green, and United Citizens Parties. The two minor party nominees together polled 320,909 votes. David Edmond of the Green Party received 202,238 votes … Continue reading
