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
The National Conference of State Legislatures publishes an on-line publication about election law, The Canvass, every week. Here is a lengthy story in Ranked Choice Voting in The Canvass of March 28. … Continue reading
As of March 28, these are the Oklahoma voter registration totals by party: Republican 991,967; Democratic 850,509; Libertarian 4,125; independent and miscellaneous 319,091. The totals in October 2016 were: Republican 983,932; Democratic 856,717; Libertarian 3,599; independent and miscellaneous 313,191. The … Continue reading
