Oklahoma State Senator Warren Hamilton (R-McCurtain) introduced SJR30 this year, but it didn’t pass. It would have changed the state Constitution to provide that initiatives can’t pass unless they receive a majority in at least two-thirds of the counties. It … Continue reading
The U.S. Elections Project has released its best estimate for voter turnout in each state, for the November 2022 election. See it here. The five lowest states were Tennessee, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Indiana. All are open primary states, … Continue reading
Earlier this month, independent candidate Ammon Bundy polled 17.2% of the vote for Governor of Idaho. This is the strongest showing for someone running outside the major parties for Governor of Idaho since 1926, when the Progressive Party nominee, W. … Continue reading
The Deseret News has this lengthy story about the Forward Party. It is odd that the story says the Forward Party is trying to get on the ballot in Texas, because petitioning in Texas to put a new party on … Continue reading
My blog post that said the Libertarian Party won four partisan elections on November 8, 2022, was incomplete. There were also six partisan wins in Indiana. The only contested win was for Town Council of Ossian, a town of 3,300 … Continue reading
