On April 17, the voters of Springfield, Illinois, will vote on whether to allow Instant-Runoff Voting for overseas absentee voters, in elections for city office. The city council has already approved the idea. Thanks to Dan Johnson-Weinberger for this news. … Continue reading
The New Jersey lawsuit filed by several minor parties on October 13, 2006 has moved slowly. The parties have given the state an extension until the first week in February 2007 to answer their complaint. The lawsuit complains about these … Continue reading
Lowell Finley, co-founder of Voter Action, was named one of California’s new Deputy Secretaries of State on January 8. Voter Action exists to fight electronic vote-counting technology. See http://voteraction.org for more information about the organization. Lowell Finley has been serving … Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear both election law cases that had been on its January 5 conference. They are Nader v Seroty and Wexler v Anderson. See post below (2 posts down) to know what these cases were … Continue reading
Oregon State Senator Ben Westlund said on January 7 that he will soon introduce a bill to repeal Oregon’s primary screen-out law. That law was passed in 2005. It makes it illegal for primary voters to sign a petition for … Continue reading
