The Ventura County Reporter has this interview with Steve Frank, one of the candidates for state chair of the California Republican Party. Frank strongly criticizes the top-two system in this interview. The California Republican Party state convention will be in … Continue reading
On January 17, the West Virginia House Judiciary Committee passed HB 2008. It changes the election system for Justice of the Supreme Court. Currently the state holds non-partisan elections for that office in November of even years. The bill would … Continue reading
Bills have recently been introduced in Oregon, Texas, and Washington, to move the presidential primaries to earlier months. The Oregon bills, HB 2107 and HB 2279, move the entire primary from May to March. The Texas bill, HB 725, moves … Continue reading
Nebraska Senator Justin Wayne (D-Omaha) has introduced LD 98. It lowers the number of signatures for a non-presidential independent candidate for statewide office from 10% of the number of registered voters, to 4,000 signatures. The state agreed last year not … Continue reading
Katrina vanden Heuvel has this article in The Nation, defending New York’s fusion law. The article says that few legislators want to repeal fusion, but it also says if Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to ban fusion in New York, he … Continue reading
