The Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee has introduced SB 1185. It moves the filing deadline for primary candidates from March to the last Friday in January. Because the non-presidential independent candidate petition deadline is also set on that deadline, that … Continue reading
Richard Winger
Washington representative Skyler Rude (R-Walla Walla) has introduced HB 1826. It would delete all party labels from primary and general election ballots, except for president. It would also delete them from the Voters Pamphlet. … Continue reading
Joe Kirby of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has filed a proposed initiative that will soon start to circulate. It would provide for a top-two system for South Dakota. Here is the text. Kirby qualified an initiative similar to this in … Continue reading
On March 1, the Arizona House passed HCR 2033, which guarantees that qualified political parties may place nominees on the general election ballot. Here is the text. If it passes the legislature, the voters would vote on it in November … Continue reading
The March 20 paper issue of the Star Tribune, the daily newspaper for Minneapolis, carries this letter by Edward T. J. Brown criticizing SB 1827 and HF 2802, the identical bills that change the definition of a ballot-qualified party from … Continue reading