Georgia requires a runoff after a general election, if no one got 50%. According to the unofficial election returns, Georgia will need a runoff in December for Secretary of State and Public Service Commissioner 3. See the election returns here. … Continue reading
The most obscure California partisan elected office is Board of Equalization. The state is divided into four districts, each of which elects a member to the State Board of Equalization, which deals with taxes. As of Monday morning, November 12, … Continue reading
Bill Whalen, a long-time Hoover Institution Fellow, says in his column here that the California top-two system “may need some repair.” He cites the tendency of voters to simply skip voting in partisan races with only two candidates from the … Continue reading
On November 6, the New York state League of Women Voters sued the New York State Board of Elections, arguing that the 25-day cutoff for voters to register is too stringent. The lawsuit proposes that the deadline should be no … Continue reading
The November 11 edition of the New York Times here endorses using the single transferable vote variant of ranked choice voting, for U.S. House elections. There has been a bill pending in the U.S. House to use that system, but … Continue reading
