Puerto Rico has elections for important office only every four years, not every two years. The Puerto Rico Delegate to the U.S. House, and the Governor, have four-year terms, up in presidential election years. The federal National Voter Registration Act … Continue reading
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Here is a pdf of most of page one of the November 2012 ballot from Palm Beach County, Florida. Florida has 12 presidential candidates on its ballot, the second-highest number of any state this year. Colorado has the most, sixteen. … Continue reading
Southern Maryland Online has this interesting story about Rob Sobhani, who is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland. He has already spent $4,600,000 on his campaign, and is in second place in the polls, ahead of the Republican … Continue reading
Melinda Henneberger is a political writer for the Washington Post. In this October 20 column, she explores the meaning of voting for a presidential candidate whose ideas may reflect the voter’s own ideas, in the context of a close presidential … Continue reading
It has now been three days since a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles invalidated California’s law on how a party gets on the ballot, and the only news sources that have reported the decision are Rick Hasen’s ElectionLawBlog, and … Continue reading