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
As reported previously, this year the Republican majority in the Arizona legislative sharply increased the difficulty for minor party members to get on their own party’s primary ballots, and also made it virtually impossible for smaller qualified parties to nominate … Continue reading
Paul Carpenter, a regular columnist for the Allentown Morning Call, wrote on July 16 that Pennsylvania’s two major parties collude with each other. Specifically, grand jury testimony about the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has revealed that 60% of the contracts for … Continue reading
Sarasota County, Florida, which has a population of 379,000, may convert its elections for county office from partisan to non-partisan. The group “Open Our Elections” is circulating a county initiative petition, to ask voters if they wish to make the … Continue reading
