The Chicago Tribune has this article in its November 17 edition, about the Illinois system for determining if candidate petitions are valid or not. New York, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, are the only three states in the country in which tradition … Continue reading
On November 13, an Alaska Superior Court Judge ruled that five write-in votes should be counted, in the November 3, 2009 election for Haines Borough Assembly. As a result, write-in candidate Daymond Hoffman won the election. See this story. The … Continue reading
On November 16, Joelle Riddle filed her federal lawsuit against the Colorado law that makes it impossible for her to run for re-election as an independent candidate in 2010. She is an incumbent La Plata County Commissioner, a partisan office. … Continue reading
The Hill has this short article on Joseph Kennedy, who is running as an independent candidate in the special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts in January 2010. The article says that Kennedy is registered as a Libertarian. This is factually … Continue reading
Southern Political Report of November 16 has a story about divisions in the present-day Democratic Party over health care. The article starts by saying, “Most folks don’t know that Democrats won more votes than Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential … Continue reading
