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Texas Representative Ron Simmons (R-Carrollton) has introduced HB 1288, to abolish the straight-ticket device. Thanks to Jim Riley for this news. … Continue reading
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Texas Representative Lyle Larson (R-San Antonio) has introduced HB 1214, to move the Texas primary for president and all other office from March to January. No state in U.S. history has ever had its congressional primary so early as January. … Continue reading
The Independent Voter Project, which intervenes in court every time the California top-two system is challenged, and which even intervened in two cases on the write-in ban, facilitates a Hawaiian vacation for some California legislators once per year. Generally, the … Continue reading
On February 10, officials in St. Louis County, Missouri, agreed to put the Constitution Party’s nominee on the ballot in the special election for County Council, Sixth District. The special election will be April 7; the Constitution Party’s nominee is … Continue reading
Joe Mathews has this column at Fox and Hounds, a California politics web site. Mathews points out the important factual error in the January 29 State Court of Appeals decision Rubin v Padilla. The decision upheld California’s top-two system, but … Continue reading