Pennsylvania makes it illegal for persons associated with legal gambling to make any campaign contributions to candidates for state or local office, or to political parties. They may not even make independent expenditures. On August 15, 2017, several potential donors … Continue reading
Greg Orman was an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in 2014, and he got 42.5% of the vote. There was no Democrat in that race. According to this story, he plans to run as an independent for Governor of Kansas … Continue reading
On December 6, Russian president Vladimir Putin, 65, said he will run for re-election. He did not specify whether he would be the nominee of his own party, or whether he would be an independent candidate. See this New York … Continue reading
The new North Carolina ballot access law for parties, SB 656, takes effect on January 1, 2018. It says that any party that “had a candidate nominated by that group on the general election ballot of at least 70% of … Continue reading
On December 2, the Alaska Republican State Committee voted to ask the Elections Division to bar three incumbent Republican state house members from filing in the 2018 Republican primary. The three incumbents voted in early 2017 to organize the House … Continue reading
