Ever since 1983, the Ohio petition deadline for independent presidential candidates has been 75 days before the general election. However, Ohio has just changed that deadline to 90 days before the general election. The change effectively moves the deadline from … Continue reading
California Progress Report has this commentary about Proposition 14, the top-two ballot measure on the June 8, 2010 California ballot. The commentary, by Calitics editor Brian Leubitz, also appears in Calitics, and itself links to Enik Rising, a blog by … Continue reading
On May 13, the lawsuit Friedlander v Brunner, 2:10cv-378, was settled out of court. The lawsuit had been filed April 27, 2010, to challenge an Ohio ban on out-of-state circulators for initiative and referendum petitions, and also to challenge a … Continue reading
On June 1, 2000, the Initiative and Referendum Institute filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., seeking to invalidate a new postal regulation barring petitioning on post office-owned sidewalks. That case is now only 5 days away … Continue reading
Larry Bragman, a city councilmember in Fairfax, California, has this op-ed in the May 27 issue of the Marin Independent-Journal about California’s Proposition 14, the top-two measure on the June 8 ballot. Bragman is a member of the Green Party. … Continue reading
