On May 5, a Superior Court Judge in Connecticut ruled that Susan Bysiewicz does meet the statutory requirement for candidates for Attorney General. The statute requires candidates for Attorney General to have actively practiced law during the last ten years. … Continue reading
Doug Clark, columnist for the Greensboro, North Carolina, News-Record, has this column criticizing North Carolina’s strict ballot access law for independent candidates. North Carolina this year requires more signatures for a statewide independent than any other state except California. North … Continue reading
The Ohio Secretary of State’s web page has this link to preliminary, unofficial primary election returns. Ohio held primaries for the Constitution, Green, Libertarian and Socialist Parties, as well as the Democratic and Republican Parties, on May 4. The Secretary … Continue reading
Ruth Marcus, a renowned Washington Post columnist, has this column, suggesting that Arizona’s public funding program, implemented in 1998, has had the effect of electing more conservatives to the legislature than would otherwise be the case. The column does not … Continue reading
On May 5, the entire Eighth Circuit reversed an earlier decision of a 3-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit, and ruled that Martin, South Dakota, need not use cumulative voting for its city council elections. Here is the decision, which … Continue reading
