In November 2008, voters in Stephenson County, Illinois, elected an independent candidate to the County Board from district K. He was George Kinney, and he defeated his only opponent, the Republican nominee, by a margin of 52.4% to 47.6%. Board … Continue reading
Bills to establish the National Popular Vote Plan in Mississippi failed to pass by the deadline for bills to pass committee, so the bills cannot pass this year. The bills, SB 2752 and HB 1244, had been introduced by Senator … Continue reading
Michael Peroutka, the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee in 2004, recently was the guest speaker at a Republican Party Club in his home state of Maryland, according to this news story. Peroutka was also the vice-presidential nominee in 2008 of the … Continue reading
Two Indiana representatives have introduced HB 1069, to eliminate the straight-ticket device. The authors are both Republicans from Indianapolis. They are Phillip Hinkle and Cindy Noe. Generally, bills to repeal the straight-ticket device are introduced by members of the minority … Continue reading
Indiana representative Dan Stevenson (D-Highland) has introduced HB 1139. It would convert Indiana’s open primary into the kind of open primary in which the primary voter need not publicly disclose which party’s primary is being used. Currently, a primary voter … Continue reading
