The Centrist Project hopes to elect some independent candidates to congress and state legislatures, and especially hopes these independents will win in legislative bodies that are closely balanced between the Republican and Democratic members. Political scientist Seth Masket comments here … Continue reading
George Skelton, veteran politics reporter for the Los Angeles Times, here bemoans the fact that young people, especially Hispanics and blacks, have far lower turnout rates nowadays in midterm years than in the past. Skelton has been vociferously in favor … Continue reading
The Delaware legislature has adjourned for the year. The only election law bill that passed this year is HB 47. It removes the requirement that an application for an absentee ballot be notarized. Delaware had been the only state in … Continue reading
Mike Becallo, an elected town councilor in Cicero, New York, has changed his registration from Republican to Libertarian. See this story. The office is partisan. Cicero has a population of 31,632 and is in Onondaga County, the same county as … Continue reading
On June 30, Vinz Koller filed this brief in Koller v Padilla, the lawsuit against the California law that tells presidential electors they must vote for the candidate who received the most popular votes in the state. … Continue reading
