On January 9, Tom Condit died at the age of 72. See this blog post from the Peace & Freedom Party’s blog. Condict lived in Berkeley. He had run for partisan office eight times on the Peace and Freedom ticket, … Continue reading
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The Fayetteville, North Carolina Observer of January 10 has this editorial, suggesting that Fayetteville should use Instant Runoff Voting so as to eliminate its costly, low-turnout city primaries. Fayetteville has non-partisan elections. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link. … Continue reading
In the last 30 days, only two election law bills in the U.S. House of Representatives have gained any additional co-sponsors. HR1826, to provide non-discriminatory public funding for candidates for Congress, now has 124 co-sponsors, up six compared to a … Continue reading
This Associated Press story in the Los Angeles Times says that Hawaii is expected to have a vacancy in one of its two U.S. House seats soon, but that the Elections Department only has $5,000 and the special election, at … Continue reading
The Washington Post has this Associated Press story about Ralph Nader’s new lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee, over the Committee’s actions in 2004 to keep Nader off as many ballots as possible. The AP story erroneously says Nader only … Continue reading