On February 16, the Indiana State Senate Elections Committee passed SCR28, asking the Legislative Council to do a 2-year study of whether Indiana should move its presidential primary from May to an earlier month. Indiana’s presidential primary has been in … Continue reading
On February 17, Indianapolis city councilmember Edward Coleman publicly announced that he had left the Republican Party and joined the Libertarian Party. Indianapolis, which has a city-county merged government (Marion County-Indianapolis), has partisan elections. Coleman is one of the 4 … Continue reading
Maryland Senator Richard Madaleno (D-Montgomery County) has introduced SB 445. It would require all petition circulators to look at a “current and valid photo ID that includes Date of Birth” for any potential signer, before letting that person sign the … Continue reading
Illinois Representative Mike Boland (D-East Moline) has introduced HB 1012, to ease ballot access for independent candidates and for the nominees of unqualified parties. The bill provides that independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, would need twice as … Continue reading
Next month Burlington, Vermont is holding a Mayoral Election, using Instant Runoff Voting. Burlington TV station WCAX interviewed all four candidates for Mayor and asserted to them, “Historians say Abraham Lincoln would not have been elected in 1860 if Burlington’s … Continue reading
