According to this Newsday story, the New York Green Party has asked to meet with the Working Families Party, to see if the two parties could jointly work for a gubernatorial nominee other than Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic incumbent who … Continue reading
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On May 22, the Oklahoma legislature’s conference committee for HB 2134, the ballot access bill, re-wrote the bill. The original bill eased the petition for a newly-qualifying party to get on the ballot, and the Senate version also slightly also … Continue reading
On May 21, Surveyusa released a poll for three statewide California races. However, unlike many other Surveyusa polls, this one only listed the leading Democratic and Republican candidates in each race, and did not even ask respondents about the well-financed … Continue reading
Jeff Jacoby, long-time columnist for the Boston Globe, has this column, “How Political Insiders Control the Ballot”, condemning restrictive ballot access laws. The column was triggered by news of Congressman John Conyers’ ballot access difficulties. Jacoby referred to Massachusetts in … Continue reading
Capital and Main, a non-partisan news source about government and politics, recently ran a two-part series by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Gary Cohn that concludes that the top-two system in California has injured labor and boosted big business. Here is the … Continue reading