Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is proposing tighter rules on paid petitioners in Michigan, according to this article (and thank you to Jim Fulner for bringing this to BAN’s attention): https://www.wemu.org/michigan-news/2023-06-26/nessel-state-should-consider-tightening-paid-petition-circulator-rules Here’s something that’s not mentioned in the article: the … Continue reading
On June 26, 2023, Robert Pitman, a US District Court Judge in the Western District of Texas, mostly granted relief requested by Plaintiffs and enjoined enforcement of Texas’s ballot access requirements insofar as they require use of paper nomination petitions. … Continue reading
LPAR Chair Michael Pakko reports the petition drive now has 6,489 signatures. 10,000 valid signatures are needed by February 13, 2024 to return the Libertarian Party to the ballot in Arkansas in 2024 for all partisan elections in the state. … Continue reading
On Tuesday, June 27, 2023, the US Supreme Court issued its opinion in the Moore v. Harper case out of North Carolina. The issue was whether the NC Supreme Court went beyond its authority in rejecting the NC legislature’s US … Continue reading
Here is a link to a FairVote analysis on the results of the June 20, 2023 Democratic Party Primary for the Arlington County, Virginia Board of Supervisors that used multiwinner Ranked Choice Voting. The vote transfer process is illustrated about … Continue reading
