On February 11, a Virginia state court judge ruled that if the state gives the list of which voters voted to political parties, candidates, and PAC’s, then the state cannot withhold the list from other groups. The case is The … Continue reading
On February 15, the South Dakota House Local Government Committee defeated HB 1158. It would have moved the independent candidate petition deadline from June to April. The bill did not attempt to amend the deadline for independent presidential candidates, which … Continue reading
The Maine Supreme Court has set a briefing schedule in Nader v Maine Democratic Party, et al, case no. washington-county-10-678. This is the tort lawsuit filed in 2009 in which Nader argues that the Democratic National Committee and its allies, … Continue reading
California Assemblymember Martin Block (D-Lemon Grove) has introduced AB 503. It says that write-in votes can be counted, even when the voter who cast the write-in vote didn’t know, or forgot, to fill in the oval or space next to … Continue reading
On February 16, the Oklahoma House Rules Committee amended the ballot access bill, HB 1058, so that it requires a new or previously unqualified party to submit a petition of exactly 22,500 valid signatures. Then the Committee passed the amended … Continue reading
