On March 30, the Maine Joint Veterans & Legal Affairs Committee postponed LD 769 until next year. It changes the definition of a qualified party. Current law says it is a group that has 5,000 registered members, but after four … Continue reading
On March 28, Arizona HCR 2033 passed the Senate, so it is now through the legislature. The vote was 16-13. Here is the text. It is a proposed constitutional amendment. The voters will vote on it in November 2024. It … Continue reading
On March 30, Arkansas SB 277 passed the State Senate. It had passed the House on March 27. It eases procedures for newly-qualifying parties. The number of signatures drops from 3% of the last gubernatorial vote (about 27,000 signatures) to … Continue reading
Alice Kelsey died on February 5, 2023, at the age of 89. She had been Treasurer of the Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE) from the early 1990’s, until about five years ago. She had lived in New York … Continue reading
On March 9, Florida state prison authorities reversed a ban on letting subscriber inmates see the January 30, 2023 issue of The Militant. That issue had been banned in one particular prison because of an article about a nurses’ strike … Continue reading
