On October 7, a Commonwealth Court heard In re Nomination Petition of Carl Stevenson again. This is the case over whether an independent candidate for the legislature should be on the ballot. The first time this case had been in … Continue reading
On October 6, the Nevada Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit filed by Citizens Outreach to remove Scott Ashjian, Tea Party candidate for U.S. Senate, from the ballot. See this story. If the Citizens Outreach lawsuit had prevailed, that would have … Continue reading
Last month, the Conservative and Working Families Party of New York state filed a federal lawsuit, challenging the state’s policy on counting ballots when a voter casts two votes for a single office, and both votes are for the same … Continue reading
A CNN/TIME poll of the Nevada U.S. Senate race shows that Scott Ashjian’s presence on the ballot as the Tea Party candidate does not injure the Republican nominee, Sharron Angle. See it here. Scroll down to Nevada. The pollster first … Continue reading
Over half the states in which major party gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidates have debated each other have included at least one minor party or independent candidate in those debates. However, this year in California, no statewide candidate debates between … Continue reading
