On the afternoon of August 12, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrary signed HB 589, the omnibus election law bill. There will now certainly be one or more lawsuits to overturn various parts of the bill. The bill has many provisions … Continue reading
Bridgeport, Connecticut elects School Board members in partisan elections. The Working Families Party already has three seats on the nine-member Board, although two of its members are up for re-election this year. The party hopes to increase its strength on … Continue reading
Dan Fein, the Socialist Workers Party nominee for Mayor of New York city, and Mary Martin, SWP nominee for Mayor of Seattle, spent some time in Egypt during the latter part of July. See this story in The Militant. Egypt, … Continue reading
The News & Review of Sacramento has this interesting discussion of Sacramento County’s recently-located 407 absentee ballots from the November 2012 election. These ballots, cast by absentee voters, were accidentally misplaced and thus never counted. Now that they have been … Continue reading
The Alabama Libertarian Party has nominated Dick Coffee for U.S. House, for the special election in the First district that will be held later this year. The party has already started petitioning to get on the ballot for that election. … Continue reading
