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The National Conference of State Legislatures has posted this useful calendar of when each state’s legislature will come into session in 2017. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link. … Continue reading
Richard Winger
According to this story, the voters of Idaho chose four presidential electors for the state on November 8, 2016, who included two federal employees. Afterwards this was noticed, and the two electors didn’t show up at the December 19 presidential … Continue reading
Texas Representative Mike Schofield (R-Houston) has introduced HB 771, which would require presidential electors to vote for the presidential candidate who won the most popular votes in Texas, and be replaced if he or she failed to do so. See … Continue reading
According to this story, New Hampshire’s State Senate will create a new committee just for election law bills, because there are so many election law bills in the upcoming 2017 session. The New Hampshire already has an election law committee. … Continue reading
Three New Hampshire Republican legislators have introduced HB 231, which would provide that each of the state’s two U.S. House districts would elect their own presidential elector. If this bill had been in effect in the 2016 election, Donald Trump … Continue reading