Democracy Resources, of Portland, Oregon, has two useful charts on its web page for anyone interested in qualifying a statewide initiative for 2014. One chart shows the number of signatures, the deadlines, and other useful information about the requirements. The … Continue reading
New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna J. Duran, a Republican, recently removed the Green Party and the Constitution Party from the ballot, even though both parties successfully petitioned in 2012 and even though, for the last seventeen years, New Mexico … Continue reading
The New York State Board of Elections has revised its official November 2012 election returns. This is because, in June, the New York City Board of Elections found an additional 6,435 ballots that had never been included in the original … Continue reading
On August 22, the United States filed a lawsuit in federal court in Corpus Christi, alleging that the Texas government photo-ID law passed in 2011 (and not yet implemented) violates Section Two of the Voting Rights Act, and the 14th … Continue reading
On August 21, the Secretaries of State of Kansas and Arizona filed a joint lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas, to regain the right of those states to require newly-registering individuals to submit documentary proof of citizenship when the … Continue reading
