The most obscure California partisan elected office is Board of Equalization. The state is divided into four districts, each of which elects a member to the State Board of Equalization, which deals with taxes. As of Monday morning, November 12, … Continue reading
Bill Whalen, a long-time Hoover Institution Fellow, says in his column here that the California top-two system “may need some repair.” He cites the tendency of voters to simply skip voting in partisan races with only two candidates from the … Continue reading
On November 6, the New York state League of Women Voters sued the New York State Board of Elections, arguing that the 25-day cutoff for voters to register is too stringent. The lawsuit proposes that the deadline should be no … Continue reading
The November 11 edition of the New York Times here endorses using the single transferable vote variant of ranked choice voting, for U.S. House elections. There has been a bill pending in the U.S. House to use that system, but … Continue reading
Assuming Kyrsten Sinema is the winner of the U.S. Senate race in Arizona, the Republican Party will have won only two U.S. Senate elections in 2018 in the western states. “Western states” means these thirteen states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, … Continue reading
