The Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives has published Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 2018. It has 60 pages and has the election returns for each congressional general election. The Clerk has been publishing a book … Continue reading
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The Utah legislature has passed HB 272. It requires declared write-in candidates to pay filing fees. Write-in presidential candidates would be charged $500. Other candidates would pay one-eighth of 1% of the annual salary for the full term of the … Continue reading
Texas Representative Drew Springer (R-Muenster) has introduced HB 2504. It would require the nominees of parties that nominate by convention to pay the same filing fees that primary candidates must pay. The Texas filing fee was originally enacted to help … Continue reading
Illinois Senator Ram Villivalam (D-Chicago) has introduced SB 1830. It sets out a procedure for a party that nominates by primary to replace any nominee, if that nominee is found to be associated with any Communist, Fascist or Nazi Group, … Continue reading
On March 25, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed SB 445. It moves the primary for all offices, in presidential years, from May to March. It also moves the petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties from January to September of the year … Continue reading