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On February 20, the New Jersey Senate State Government Committee passed S4142, which change primary ballot access to an office-group format. The bill has many features that drew opposition. See this story. … Continue reading
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On February 21, Pennsylvania filed this brief in West v Pennsylvania Department of State, w.d., 2:24cv-1349. The issue is the discriminatory law that requires petitioning presidential candidates to file sworn declarations of candidacy for each presidential elector candidate, and also … Continue reading
Rhode Island Representative Brian Newberry (R-North Smithfield) has introduced HB 5520, to divide Rhode Island into four equal-population districts. Each “presidential elector district” would elect one presidential elector. This is different than the Nebraska and Maine systems, in which there … Continue reading
On February 24, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Upstate Jobs Party v Kosinski, 24-503, a lawsuit challenging the New York law that lets individuals give more campaign contributions to nominees of qualified parties than to independent candidates and … Continue reading
Indpana State Senator Mike Gaskill (R-Pendleton), author of Senate Bill 201, has abandoned his bill even though it had passed the Senate Elections Committee on February 3. His bill would have converted Indiana from an open primary state to a … Continue reading