This December 17 Daily Oklahoman editorial again recommends that the Oklahoma legislature improve ballot access for newly-qualifying parties and independent presidential candidates. The editorial also recommends that the two major parties open their primaries to independent voters. The editorial disagrees … Continue reading
Zambia holds a presidential election on January 20, 2015. Eleven parties have qualified for the election, including the Green Party, which is campaigning to legalize marijuana, and also to try to export marijuana to countries that permit medicinal marijuana. See … Continue reading
Iowa State Senator Brad Zaun (R-Urbandale) has pre-introduced a bill to provide that when no one gets as much as 35% of the vote in a partisan primary, the government will hold a run-off primary. Iowa primaries are in June, … Continue reading
According to this story, some leading Chicago African-American pastors have called on the Chicago Board of Elections to keep Mayoral candidate Willie Wilson on the ballot in the February 2015 election. Wilson turned in 47,000 signatures, but challengers allied to … Continue reading
Joseph D. Morrissey, who was re-elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2013 as a Democrat, recently resigned, so there will be a special election to fill his seat on January 13, 2015. However, Morrissey is running in the … Continue reading
