The Republican Party National Committee meets later this week to vote on a proposal to change rules and dates for presidential primaries and caucuses. The proposal needs a two-thirds vote. See this story. Thanks to Rick Hasen’s ElectionLawBlog for the … Continue reading
The Constitution Party of Illinois submitted approximately 34,000 signatures at the end of June for its statewide slate of candidates. The petition was challenged. The process by which State Board of Elections officials check each individual signature, over the watchful … Continue reading
A majority of states depend on filing fees, instead of petitions, for candidates to get themselves on primary ballots. However, Illinois and New York have always depended on petitions for ballot access in primaries. Recently, influential persons in those two … Continue reading
Newsweek recently reported that the national Democratic Party’s bylaws committees, back on July 10, rejected one of the recommendations of the Democratic Change Committee. The Democratic Change Committee had been appointed to recommend changes in the party’s presidential nominee selection … Continue reading
One of the two Las Vegas daily newspapers, the Review-Journal, said in an editorial on June 1 that the newspaper would not tolerate any blogs that reprint a few sentences of a Review-Journal news story and then link to that … Continue reading
