Joe Mathews, a California political analyst, writes here that the California top-two system does not help centrists. … Continue reading
Richard Winger
Kansas businessman Scott Morgan has announced that he is hoping to organize a new party, for Kansas, to be called “Party of the Center.” He will try to get it on the 2018 ballot. See this story. Kansas formerly had … Continue reading
On October 30, four Philadelphia polling place officials, all Democrats, were indicted for actions they took on March 21, 2017, the day the special legislative election was held in the 197th House district. This is the election in which the … Continue reading
On October 23, the Commission on Presidential Debates filed this amicus curiae brief in defense of its current policy on whom it invites into the presidential debates. This is in the lawsuit called Level the Playing Field v Federal Election … Continue reading
A U.S. District Court in Arkansas will hold a trial in Moore v Martin, e.d. 4:14cv-65, on December 12, 2017. The issue is whether the state really needs a March petition deadline for non-presidential independents in order to have enough … Continue reading