On March 8, voters in Los Angeles approved Measure H by a margin of 75%-25%. It raises the amount of money available for public funding for candidates for city office. The old law, providing for public funding for campaigns, had … Continue reading
Election law professor Rick Hasen has posted a scholarly article that anyone may read on-line. Here is a link to the synopsis. It says that the U.S. Supreme Court took fewer election law cases in the 2001-2010 decade than in … Continue reading
This newspaper story covers negotiations in the Idaho legislature over possible changes in the Republican Party primaries of the future. The very end of the story quotes Secretary of State Ben Ysursa as saying “The battle’s over”, which seems to … Continue reading
On March 10, U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs, an Obama appointee, held a hearing (starting at 10 a.m.) in Greenville County Republican Party v State of South Carolina, 6:10-cv-1407. The hearing is in Greenville. This is the lawsuit … Continue reading
On March 9, the North Carolina House Elections Committee discussed the ballot access bill, HB 32, but did not pass it because of time constraints, and because not all amendments had been drafted. The committee still seems amenable to passing … Continue reading
