Two bills have been introduced in the Connecticut legislature for an earlier presidential primary. SB 610 would move both major party presidential primaries from the last Tuesday in April to the first Tuesday in March. SB 599 would move only … Continue reading
Political scientists Seth Masket and Michael G. Miller have made available a draft of their study of public funding for legislative candidates in Maine and Arizona. They find that public funding programs do not help elect more extreme candidates. Here … Continue reading
On January 23, the Democratic National Committee said the 2016 national convention will be July 25-28, 2016. This is good news for proponents of improved general election presidential and vice-presidential debates. In 2016, for the first time since 1960, both … Continue reading
The South Dakota Senate State Affairs was to have considered SB 69 on Friday, January 23, but has put off the hearing until next week. The bill, as originally introduced, moves the petition for a newly-qualifying party from March to … Continue reading
As already noted, a bill to improve Oklahoma ballot access was introduced recently in the State Senate. Now there are two even better bills introduced in the House. HB 2181, by Speaker of the House Jeffrey Hickman (R-Fairview), would lower … Continue reading
