The South Dakota Secretary of State’s omnibus bill, HB 1018, would allow a ballot-qualified party to tell the Secretary of State that it no longer wishes to be ballot-qualified. The national chair and the state chair would both be required … Continue reading
Pennsylvania State Senator Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon) has introduced SB 195, to ease ballot access for minor parties and independent candidates. This is the third session in which he has introduced this bill. It sharply reduces the number of signatures for … Continue reading
Oklahoma State Senator Rob Johnson (R-Kingfisher) has introduced SB 668, which does not improve ballot access for newly-qualifying parties in presidential election years, but which does improve it in midterm years. The bill retains the 5% figure for calculating the … Continue reading
On January 16, the Third Circuit upheld a Pennsylvania law that bars anyone other than voters and polling place officials from being inside a polling place. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had sued to overturn the law, arguing that it desired to … Continue reading
The most powerful backers of the top-two system in California consistently argued that if California passed the top-two voter measure in June 2010, the type of Republicans elected would change, from “extremists” to “moderates.” These backers included the Chamber of … Continue reading
