According to this Newsday story, the Nassau County Republican organization has recruited a 25-year-old nephew of the head of the county Industrial Development Agency to run for Nassau County Executive this year. The organization carried out a petition drive to … Continue reading
On July 10, the Washington, D.C. city council gave final passage to B20-0245, which permanently repeals the ban on out-of-district circulators. But the Council did not pass B20-0265, which moves the primary for all office (president and everything else) from … Continue reading
On July 16, former President Jimmy Carter said in a speech, “America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy”. See this story. In 2003, Carter said that he deplores Georgia’s ballot access laws, but that he saw no … Continue reading
On July 18, Tennessee appealed last month’s decision in Green Party of Tennessee v Hargett, middle district, 3:11cv-692. The U.S. District Court last month had struck down the number of signatures needed for a new party, and had also struck … Continue reading
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has this book review in the New York Review of Books. The book Stevens reviews is “Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy”, by Gary May. … Continue reading
