According to this story, a poll of the Alabama Republican primary for this year’s special U.S. Senate election shows Roy Moore leading. However, Alabama election law provides for runoff primaries, even in special elections. The primary is August 15. The … Continue reading
The Centrist Project hopes to elect some independent candidates to congress and state legislatures, and especially hopes these independents will win in legislative bodies that are closely balanced between the Republican and Democratic members. Political scientist Seth Masket comments here … Continue reading
George Skelton, veteran politics reporter for the Los Angeles Times, here bemoans the fact that young people, especially Hispanics and blacks, have far lower turnout rates nowadays in midterm years than in the past. Skelton has been vociferously in favor … Continue reading
The Delaware legislature has adjourned for the year. The only election law bill that passed this year is HB 47. It removes the requirement that an application for an absentee ballot be notarized. Delaware had been the only state in … Continue reading
Mike Becallo, an elected town councilor in Cicero, New York, has changed his registration from Republican to Libertarian. See this story. The office is partisan. Cicero has a population of 31,632 and is in Onondaga County, the same county as … Continue reading
