Dan Balz has been a politics analyst and reporter for the Washington Post since 1978. He has also written several best-selling books about U.S. politics and campaigns, and he has received an award from the American Political Science Association for … Continue reading
In 2015, the Washington, D.C. city council amended election regulation 3-1600 to provide that if a qualified party doesn’t nominate anyone for a particular partisan office in its primary, that party is still free to nominate someone after the primary … Continue reading
On June 1, filing closed for candidates running in any Alaska primaries. Former Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Begich filed to run for Governor in the Democratic primary. As a result, incumbent Governor Bill Walker, an independent, did not file in … Continue reading
Amy Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report, here makes an original point…the more election laws, including campaign finance laws and laws about primaries, are altered to reduce the influence of the Republican and Democratic Parties, the more partisanship among … Continue reading
The Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff assembled a panel of six informed citizens, none of them elected officials, to discuss various ideas for election reform. They were Harriet Young, Joy Staveley, Holly Taylor, Carl Taylor, Dick Monroe, and Ann Heitland. … Continue reading
