Earlier this year, the Mississippi legislature passed SB 2167. It requires general election presidential candidates to pay a fee of $2,500, whether they are independents or the nominees of qualified parties. The bill was signed into law April 6, 2016, … Continue reading
On August 13, the Peace & Freedom Party of California nominated Gloria LaRiva for president. In PFP’s 48 years of existence, this is the first time it has nominated the presidential nominee of a party with “socialist” or “socialism” in … Continue reading
On August 13, the American Independent Party held its state convention in Sacramento, and nominated Donald Trump for President and Michael Pence for Vice-President. The California election code, section 13105(c), permits two qualified parties to jointly nominate the same presidential … Continue reading
On August 13, Hugh Hewitt spoke at the RedState Gathering in Denver. He advocated that open primaries be abolished. See this story. For more about Hewitt, see here. UPDATE: here is a Denver Post story about what various speakers at … Continue reading
on August 12, both sides in the lawsuit Libertarian Party of Maine v Dunlap, the ballot access case, asked the judge to put the lawsuit on hold until December 15, 2016. This is the case in which the judge granted … Continue reading
