On January 17, the Arizona House Local & International Affairs Committee defeated HB 2032 by 5-2. It would have forced Tucson to use non-partisan elections for city office. Tucson currently is the only city in Arizona that uses partisan elections.
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On February 7, the U.S. District Court Judge assigned to the lawsuit North Carolina Democratic Party v Berger issued an order. She had ruled last week that the state must hold 2018 judicial primaries for the State Supreme Court and … Continue reading
On January 31, a U.S. District Court issued a 12-page order in Citizens for Fair Representation v Padilla, e.d., 2:17cv-973. This is the lawsuit that says because California’s legislative districts have such huge populations (virtually 1,000,000 for State Senate, and … Continue reading
John Cox’s California initiative to vastly expand the number of state legislators has failed to qualify for the ballot. Cox submitted 794,643 signatures and needed 585,407 valid ones. Election officials checked all the signatures and determined that only 559,906 were … Continue reading
On February 1, a subcommittee of the Virginia House Privileges & Elections Committee defeated HB 1129 by 5-1. The bill would have imposed a top-two system on Virginia.