North Dakota HB 1260 will be heard in the House Government & Veterans Affairs Committee on January 29, at 8 a.m., Thursday. This is the bill that deletes the minimum vote turnout needed in a partisan primary before that party … Continue reading
On January 23, several good-government groups filed this amicus curiae brief in Arizona State Legislature v Arizona State Redistricting Commission, a case that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear on March 2, 2015. The issue is whether Arizona and other … Continue reading
Two bills have been introduced in the Connecticut legislature for an earlier presidential primary. SB 610 would move both major party presidential primaries from the last Tuesday in April to the first Tuesday in March. SB 599 would move only … Continue reading
Political scientists Seth Masket and Michael G. Miller have made available a draft of their study of public funding for legislative candidates in Maine and Arizona. They find that public funding programs do not help elect more extreme candidates. Here … Continue reading
On January 23, the Democratic National Committee said the 2016 national convention will be July 25-28, 2016. This is good news for proponents of improved general election presidential and vice-presidential debates. In 2016, for the first time since 1960, both … Continue reading
