Even though New York state no longer uses mechanical voting machines, election authorities in that state continue to design ballots as though mechanical voting machines still exist. Here is the New York November 2014 ballot for counties outside New York … Continue reading
On October 10, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Piersol issued his written opinion in South Dakota Libertarian Party v Gant, 14-cv-4132. This is the case over whether the state should have put the Libertarian Party’s nominee for Public Service Commissioner … Continue reading
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times has this interesting column by political scientist Ernest Evans, on the useful role minor parties have played in U.S. history. … Continue reading
The Brookings Institution, a venerable think tank in Washington, D.C., has posted this article about top-two primaries. The report, by Professor Elaine Kamarck and Georgetown Graduate Student Alexander R. Podkul, uses confusing vocabulary, and sometimes refers to top-two primaries as … Continue reading
Here is a description of the 3-party debate in North Carolina’s Senate race, which was held on October 9. UPDATE: see this longer story. Thanks to Christopher Cole for that link. … Continue reading
