On the evening of January 5, the Oakland, California, City Council voted 6-2 to use Instant Runoff Voting for this year’s city elections. Instead of the old system, a June first round with a November run-off when no one got … Continue reading
The California deadline to qualify a new political party is January 6, 2010. Although no official data will be released from California’s voter registration tally for several weeks, it is clear that no new party has qualified. None was making … Continue reading
U.S. House member Nathan Deal, a Republican from northwest Georgia, sent a letter to President Barack Obama on December 1, 2009, asking the President to furnish a more complete birth certificate. See this story. Congressman Deal’s office confirms that the … Continue reading
On January 5, the New York City Board of Elections chose a new vote-counting system to replace the city’s old Shoup mechanical voting machines. From now on, New York city voters will fill out ballots by blackening an oval next … Continue reading
Jana Kemp, a former state Republican legislator in Idaho, has just launched her independent candidacy for Governor. She needed 1,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot, and has already completed the petition. See this story about her campaign. … Continue reading
