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On March 17, the Minnesota House Election Finance & Policy Committee held an hour’s hearing on SF 2802, which doubles the vote test for qualified party status from 5% to 10%. The committee did not act on the bill, but … Continue reading
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On March 10, a state court lawsuit was filed against the new Arkansas law that requires statewide initiatives to contain a high number of signatures from each of 50 counties. King v Thurston, Pulaski County Circuit Court, 60cv-23-1816. The lead … Continue reading
On March 16, the Arkansas Senate State Agencies & Governmental Affairs Committee passed SB 277, the bill to lower the number of signatures for a newly-qualifying party from 3% of the last gubernatorial vote (about 27,000 signatures) to exactly 10,000 … Continue reading
Georgia holds general election run-offs (except for president) if no one gets 50% of the vote. Two bills to change that have failed to advance, and it is now too late for them to pass. HB 419 would have provided … Continue reading
On March 3, the Hawaii Senate passed SB 47, which deals with the order of candidates on the ballot. Existing law uses alphabetical order of candidate surnames. The bill changes that for a random procedure to determine which candidates are … Continue reading