Six Georgia State House members have introduced HB 58, which lowers minor party and independent petitions for district and county office. The bill lowers these petitions from 5% of the number of registered voters, to 2% of the last vote … Continue reading
On January 22, the sponsors of the upcoming British election debates said they will invite seven parties into two of those debates. See this story. The Green Party had been fighting this battle for several months, and now it appears … Continue reading
On January 21, the supporters of Maine’s program for public funding of campaigns submitted 85,000 signatures for their statewide initiative to expand the public funding program. See this story. Assuming the initiative gets on the ballot, it will have a … Continue reading
The Mississippi Secretary of State’s office set up a Committee to Review the state’s election laws last year. On January 16, 2015, the committee issued this 18-page report. The committee has 50 members. On the issue of whether to provide … Continue reading
John Myers of KQED, the leading public broadcasting station in northern California, has this interesting analysis of the top-two system on major party nominations and processes. He expects primary turnout to continue to be quite low. He also notes the … Continue reading
