On April 8, a Maine state court made it very likely that an initiative to legalize marijuana will be on the November 2016 ballot. Proponents needed 61,123 valid signatures and submitted 99,229 raw signatures. Last month the Secretary of State … Continue reading
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On April 7, the Maryland Senate defeated SB 350 in a close vote. It would have provided that adult citizens known to exist would automatically be registered to vote, although afterwards individuals could decline to be registered. See this story. … Continue reading
Australia’s Senate is elected by proportional representation. On April 8, the Senate passed a bill altering the proportional representation method somewhat. See this story. One effect of the bill, if it becomes law, is that the very smallest parties would … Continue reading
Many counties and cities in Virginia have partisan elections for their own officers. Yet Virginia law says party labels for those partisan elections cannot appear on general election ballots. On April 8, Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, vetoed SB 767, … Continue reading
On March 24, New York Assemblymember Fred W. Thiele (I-Sag Harbor) introduced AB 9661, to let independent voters vote in any party’s presidential primary. Thiele has been a registered member of the Independence Party since 2010, but in all the … Continue reading