On Wednesday, April 26, the North Carolina Senate unanimously passed SB 656, by Senator Andrew Brock. It lowers the number of signatures from 2% of the last gubernatorial vote to exactly 10,000. It also lowers the statewide independent petition to … Continue reading
April 27 is the deadline for Oklahoma bills that have passed the house of origin to also have passed the other house. Neither of the two bills that improve ballot access will be brought up in the House on April … Continue reading
On April 26, the California Assembly Elections Committee passed AB 84, which moves the primary for all office to March, in presidential years. A similar bill, SB 568, passed the Senate Elections Committee last week. … Continue reading
On the evening of April 24, Monday, the Texas House Elections Committee heard testimony on HB 3068, which improves ballot access for minor parties and independent candidates. Supporting the bill were representatives of America’s Party, the Green Party, and the … Continue reading
The Colorado Independent has this interesting story about the presidential electors in 2016 who struggled to assert their right to vote for any qualified presidential candidate in the electoral college — the so-called faithless electors. The story says that the … Continue reading
