On May 16, two California election law bills passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee. They are AB 1451, which outlaws paying initiative circulators on a per-signature basis; and AB 681, which requires election officials to send three messages to independent voters … Continue reading
On May 16, New Hampshire HB 588 passed the Senate Election Law Committee. It had already passed the House. It deletes the requirement that a presidential primary candidate must be a registered member of the party whose primary he or … Continue reading
On April 30, the Minnesota House amended a budget bill that had already passed the Senate. The House amended the bill to include the National Popular Vote Plan bill, and passed the bill, SF 2227. But the Senate did not … Continue reading
This Bloomberg story says that Congressman Richard Neal, chair of the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee, apparently doesn’t want to see President Trump’s New York state income tax returns, even if the New York legislature passes the bill that … Continue reading
Peter Wallison, a Senior Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, here argues in The Hill that if the electoral college is abolished, the two-party system will cease to exist. This seems obviously wrong. Every state elects its Governor with a … Continue reading
