The Illinois 8th U.S. House district is one of the more closely balanced congressional districts in the nation. In 2004 it switched from the Republicans to the Democrats, when Melissa Bean defeated long-time incumbent Philip Crane. Bean has been re-elected … Continue reading
The November 9 edition of Ballot Box has this interesting analysis of the Virginia elections of 2009 and 2005 and how the eventual outcome depended partly on a random drawing. The random drawing is held in Virginia to determine which … Continue reading
Arizona’s public funding law for candidates for state office provides that a candidate who accepts public funding, and then breaks the law on a matter involving campaign spending, risks being ousted from public office. On November 9, an Administrative Law … Continue reading
A U.S. District Court in Long Island, New York, will hear oral arguments in MacKay v Crews, 2:09-cv-02218, on December 4, 2009, Friday, at 11 a.m. The Judge is Joseph F. Bianco, and the courthouse is in Central Islip, New … Continue reading
By a strange coincidence, two pending ballot access cases in the Eleventh Circuit recently hit procedural bumps, but the Court has cleared these away, and the two cases will proceed. In Georgia, the Attorney General had somehow missed an October … Continue reading
