On November 15, the Massachusetts Senate passed SB 2414 by a vote of 33-5. It moves the presidential primary from March to February 5. The new deadline for qualified parties to tell the Secretary of State whom to list on … Continue reading
Richard Winger
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the Indiana voting rights case on January 9, at 10 a.m. The case is actually two combined cases, Indiana Democratic Party v Rokita, 07-25, and Crawford v Marion County Election Board, 07-21. The issue … Continue reading
Today the Michigan Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court that giving the two major parties monopoly access to the list of primary voters is unconstitutional. This deals a possible blow to to Michigan political leaders’ hopes of holding … Continue reading
On November 15, the federal court that is hearing Green Party of Connecticut v Garfield ruled that evidence-gathering in the case should proceed. The case was filed in 2006 to overturn the discriminatory parts of Connecticut’s public funding law. The … Continue reading
This newspaper story, published November 16 in the Concord, New Hampshire Monitor, describes the hearing held in Libertarian Party of New Hampshire v Gardner. The story seems to suggest that the judge is skeptical of the law, which provides that … Continue reading