Hendersonville, North Carolina, used Instant Runoff Voting for its own city elections in 2007. On April 9, the city council voted 4-1 to use it again in this year’s city elections. North Carolina law lets a limited number of cities … Continue reading
According to an article in the New York Daily News of April 11, Mayor Mike Bloomberg has now secured the support of the county chair of the Bronx Borough Republican Party. New York election laws permit an independent (or a … Continue reading
On April 11, the West Virginia Senate passed HB 2981, the bill to improve ballot access. It had already passed the House. The bill lowers the petition from 2% of the last vote cast, to 1%. It also moves the … Continue reading
Katon Dawson, an official of the South Carolina Republican Party, has this op-ed in the April 8 issue of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, in support of a bill to make it illegal for primary voters to sign an independent candidate’s petition. … Continue reading
The Nevada Secretary of State’s bill to require minor parties and independent candidates to make their nominations in the first few months of an election year is now officially dead. AB 82 made no headway, and the deadline has now … Continue reading
