On November 14, a Nebraska state trial court in Lincoln held arguments on whether the medical marijuana initiative that passed on November 5 should be ruled invalid. The challengers to the initiative claim the initiative didn’t have enough valid signatures. … Continue reading
On November 14, the Fourth Circuit agreed with the lower court that North Carolina’s law requiring candidates to reveal whether they have been convicted of a felony does not add to the qualifications to run for Congress. Sharma v Hirsch, … Continue reading
On November 18, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Ayyadurai v Democratic State Committee of New Jersey, 24-342. This is the lawsuit filed by independent presidential candidate Shiva Ayyadurai. He had enough valid signatures in New Jersey, and New … Continue reading
At last week’s election, the only states in which one of the presidential candidates got less than 50% of the total vote were Michigan and Wisconsin. And even in those two states, the margin between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris … Continue reading
The two states that used Ranked Choice Voting this year gave significantly higher vote percentages to minor party presidential candidates, relative to the states that didn’t use RCV. Jill Stein’s highest percentage was in Maine, one of the states that … Continue reading
