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A bill in the Washington state legislature to ban paying initiative petitioners on a per-signature basis is dead. SB 5973 did not advance through the Senate, and it is now too late for it to pass. … Continue reading
Richard Winger
The Illinois Green Party will attempt to place its statewide slate on the 2026 ballot. See here for the list of the statewide slate. The party did not get on the statewide ballot in 2024. It is likely that the … Continue reading
The Harvard Political Review has this article by Noah Chung-Igelman. It gives the history of strong independent U.S. Senate campaigns in the last twelve years, and explains why none of them succeeded in electing a new independent member of the … Continue reading
On February 11, the Wisconsin legislature passed AB 223, which bans out-of-state circulators for candidate petitions and recall petitions. Wisconsin doesn’t have the initiative or referendum. In the Senate the vote was party-line, with all Democrats voting “no” and all … Continue reading
On January 27, the South Dakota House defeated HB 1087. It would have made it illegal to pay petitioners for circulating an initiative or referendum petition. The sponsor was Representative Travis Ismay (R-Newell). The vote was 28-38. The U.S. Supreme … Continue reading