On July 8, Dan La Botz filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., over a complete absence of objective criteria in several televised debates last year between candidates for U.S. Senate in Ohio. La Botz was the … Continue reading
On July 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. issued this opinion in LaRoque v Holder, 10-5433. The decision says that independent candidate John Nix, who wants to run for city council of Kinston, North Carolina, in the November … Continue reading
On July 1, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called a special election to fill the empty U.S. House seat of Anthony Weiner. New York law requires 3,500 valid signatures to place an independent candidate, or the nominee of an unqualified … Continue reading
Leadership of the Idaho Republican Party will decide on July 16 whether to institute a caucus for 2012 instead of using the May presidential primary. See this story. Although the party does not have the power to eliminate the presidential … Continue reading
On July 1, Ohio Governor John Kasich signed HB 194. This is an omnibus election law bill that, among other things, purports to give Ohio a ballot access law for minor parties that complies with the 2006 decision of the … Continue reading
