On April 7, the Oklahoma House passed SB 1016. It removes the names of the qualified parties, and the checkboxes for each, from the voter registration form. Instead the voter registration form will simply ask the applicant to fill out … Continue reading
On April 4, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed SB 1501 and SB 1599. They make it somewhat easier for parties to remain ballot-qualified. Earlier this year the legislature had passed a bill to automatically register every adult citizen known to … Continue reading
On April 6, a proposed statewide California initiative was cleared to begin collecting signatures. The measure would require the state to permit registered voters to sign statewide and local initiatives electronically. Proponents of such initiatives would ask the Secretary of … Continue reading
New York’s presidential primary is April 19. According to this story, the State Board is getting approximately 100 phone complaints per day from voters who are too late to register into either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, so … Continue reading
April 4 was the New Jersey deadline for presidential candidates running in a presidential primary. Each candidate needed 1,000 signatures of registered members of the party. Only two Democrats filed: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Only three Republicans filed: Ted … Continue reading
