On September 5, the California Senate passed AB 1227. It lets Santa Clara County, the most populous county in northern California, use ranked choice voting for elections for its own officers. However, the bill is still not through the legislature, … Continue reading
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On September 5, the California legislature passed AB 421, a bill that would have made it more difficult for referenda and initiatives to get on the ballot. But those provisions were taken out of the bill before it passed. Now … Continue reading
This news story says 419 North Carolina voters have already registered as members of the No Labels Party, and says that two-thirds of them are voters who had not previously been registered, or at least were not registered in North … Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Vidal v Elster, 22-704, on November 1, Wednesday. The issue is the federal trademark law, the Lanham Act, and whether an individual should be permitted to trademark the political slogan “Trump Too Small” for … Continue reading
On September 6, some Colorado voters filed a lawsuit in state court to bar former President Donald Trump from the March 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot. Anderson v Griswold, state district court, Denver. See the filing here. Thanks to ElectionLawBlog … Continue reading