The Los Angeles Times has this story about Thomas Palzer’s initiative to repeal California’s top-two system. The article is valuable but at the same time deeply flawed. It says that before top-two passed, independent voters were not allowed to vote … Continue reading
There are 31 amici curiae briefs (on the side opposed to the government of Wisconsin) to the U.S. Supreme Court in Gill v Whitford, the partisan gerrymandering lawsuit that will be argued next month. Probably the one amicus brief that … Continue reading
On September 7, Androscoggin County Commissioner (Maine) Zachery Maher switched his party registration from Republican to Libertarian. The office is partisan and was last up in November 2016. He is up for re-election again in 2020. He represents district 7 … Continue reading
A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles will hear arguments in De La Fuente v Padilla, 2:16cv-3242, on Monday, October 2. The case challenges the number of signatures needed for an independent presidential candidate, which will probably be close to … Continue reading
On September 8, the Virginia State Board of Elections voted to require all local election boards in the state to use vote-counting machines that have a paper trail. Twenty-two localities (either counties or independent cities) had been using electronic machines … Continue reading
