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Florida State Senator Audrey Gibson (D-Jacksonville) has introduced SB 366. It converts elections for State Attorney and Public Defender from partisan to non-partisan elections. … Continue reading
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On January 5, 2017, California Assemblyman Kevin Mullin introduced AB 84, to move the primary (for all office) in presidential years from June to early March. On March 21, he amended the bill so that it is now more specific. … Continue reading
On March 28, the Tennessee House Subcommittee on Local Government passed HB 662. It lowers the number of signatures for a newly-qualifying party from 2.5% of the last gubernatorial vote (33,816 signatures) to exactly 5,000. The bill was amended to … Continue reading
This Salon story seems to indicate that backers of a California initiative to split the state into two states have enough funds to get their idea on the 2018 ballot. … Continue reading
The Commission on Presidential Debates, founded in 1987, has always had two co-chairs, one of whom was a current or former high-ranking officer of the Democratic Party, and the other was a current or former high-ranking officer of the Republican … Continue reading