The West Virginia Constitution Party submitted 20,610 signatures to be on the 2008 ballot for president. Some of them had been turned in previously and have an 80% validity rate. Unfortunately the petition only counts for president. In order to … Continue reading
Both Pennsylvania and West Virginia require minor party and independent presidential petitions to be submitted on August 1. In both states, one or another minor party is struggling with that deadline. The Pennsylvania deadline seems very vulnerable to challenge. The … Continue reading
The New Jersey Elections Department has certified Chuck Baldwin for the November ballot, despite the glitch that the petitions were submitted three days late. The state had erroneously issued petition blanks that clearly said they are due on August 11. … Continue reading
Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, but he continued to teach law. In 2002 (and probably other years) he taught a course on election law. ElectionLawBlog has posted this syllabus from Professor Obama’s election law class. … Continue reading
The Massachusetts legislature ended its session in the middle of the night (July 31-August 1), without passing either high-profile election law bill. H.4952 was the National Popular Vote Plan bill, and S.2807 would have instituted election-day voter registration. The National … Continue reading
