On March 6, 2011, Estonia held a parliamentary election in which voters were free to vote on the internet. The Helsinki Accords organization, ODIHR, has just issued a report on that election. See this blog post at Election Updates. The … Continue reading
On May 17, California held an election to fill the vacant seat in the 36th U.S. House district. All candidates appeared on a single ballot and all voters received that ballot. The ballot listed sixteen candidates: 6 Republicans, 5 Democrats, … Continue reading
Americans Elect, which is trying to qualify as a party in California using the 10% (of the last gubernatorial vote) petition method, now has over 500,000 signatures. This already sets a new record for the largest number of signatures ever … Continue reading
Until 2009, every court that had ever heard a case on whether an unqualified party could list a stand-in vice-presidential candidate, or a stand-in presidential candidate, on its ballot access petition, had always approved the idea. Because some states require … Continue reading
On May 9, a Superior Court in Vermont again rejected the state’s request to dispense with the trial, in Trudell v State of Vermont. This is the lawsuit, filed last year, against Vermont’s June petition deadline for independent candidates. The … Continue reading
