On January 19, the city council of San Leandro, California, voted 5-2 to use Instant Runoff Voting for the city’s own elections in 2010. San Leandro is in Alameda County. Since Oakland and Berkeley will be using it this year … Continue reading
At the point at which 94% of the vote had been counted in the special U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, the vote was: 1,148,400 for the Republican nominee; 1,029,600 for the Democratic nominee; 22,100 for the Libertarian who was running … Continue reading
On January 19, the Arizona State Senate Judiciary Committee passed SCR 1009, which would provide that the state’s public funding program for candidates for state office would no longer be funded. See this story. … Continue reading
On January 19, the South Carolina Supreme Court issued a brief, unsigned opinion, dismissing the Green Party’s challenge to the oath that candidates must sign before they run in a major party primary. The mandatory oath is one reason the … Continue reading
In 1986 the U.S. Supreme Court said in Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut that if a party wants to let independents vote in its primary, it may do so. South Dakota, like most states, changed its law to permit … Continue reading
