Joe Kirby of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has filed a proposed initiative that will soon start to circulate. It would provide for a top-two system for South Dakota. Here is the text. Kirby qualified an initiative similar to this in … Continue reading
On March 1, the Arizona House passed HCR 2033, which guarantees that qualified political parties may place nominees on the general election ballot. Here is the text. If it passes the legislature, the voters would vote on it in November … Continue reading
The March 20 paper issue of the Star Tribune, the daily newspaper for Minneapolis, carries this letter by Edward T. J. Brown criticizing SB 1827 and HF 2802, the identical bills that change the definition of a ballot-qualified party from … Continue reading
Eight Rhode Island representatives have introduced HB 5721, which would move the non-presidential primary from eight weeks before the general election to the last Tuesday in August. That would move the primary two weeks earlier. If the bill were enacted, … Continue reading
On Saturday, March 18, the New Mexico legislature adjourned. It did not pass SB 73, the bill to let independent voters choose a partisan primary ballot without first joining that party. … Continue reading
