On December 5, the Texas Secretary of State appealed the order in Dikeman v Hughs, the case over whether candidates seeking the nomination of a convention party must pay the same filing fee that primary candidates pay. The case is … Continue reading
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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Colorado Department of State v Baca, 19-518, at its January 10, 2020 conference. This is the case on “faithless electors” from Colorado. The Court had already set a conference date of … Continue reading
Missouri legislators have already started introducing bills for 2020. Representative Dan Stacy (R-Blue Springs) has introduced HB 1258. It changes Missouri primaries from open to closed. He introduced the same bill in 2019, HB 26, and it passed the House, … Continue reading
The Oklahoma State Board of Elections has this list of presidential primary candidates. Although Kamala Harris is on the Democratic list, she withdrew from the Oklahoma primary on December 4, so there will be fourteen Democrats and six Republicans. No … Continue reading
The North Carolina deadline for qualified parties to tell the state which presidential candidates to list on primary ballots has passed. However, the State Board of Elections has the power to add the names of any presidential candidates who weren’t … Continue reading