Recently, Bill Bayes withdrew as the Prohibition Party nominee for president in 2020. He had been nominated on November 13, 2018 in a conference call of party activists. A new such telephone conference will be held soon to replace him. … Continue reading
On March 28, the Florida House Judiciary Committee passed PCB JDC 19-01, which would make it illegal for out-of-state circulators to work on Florida initiatives. It would also ban paying circulators on a per-signature basis. See this story. Thanks to … Continue reading
In 2020, only seven states won’t have government-funded presidential primaries, the fewest ever. States that did not have a presidential primary in 2016, but which will in 2020, are Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Utah. This assumes that one of the … Continue reading
Generally speaking, it is easy to know or predict the date of every state’s presidential primary in 2020, except for New York. The statute says the New York 2020 presidential primary will be on February 4, but that is very … Continue reading
History Professor James Coll has this op-ed in the Albany Times-Union, criticizing his own state’s ballot access laws. His op-ed does not mention that earlier this year, the New York legislature moved the independent candidate petition deadline from August to … Continue reading
