On April 5, the Mississippi legislature adjourned. HC 39, to restore the statewide initiative process, failed to pass. See this story.
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California elects all 80 members of the Assembly this year, as well as 20 members of the State Senate. Filing has closed for the June primary. There are thirteen legislative races with only one person whose name will be on the primary ballot.
California permits write-ins in the primary, but not in the general election (for partisan office). Any write-in candidate who outpolls any other write-in candidate in those thirteen races will appear on the November ballot. Minor parties typically recruit candidates to file as write-ins in such races. The districts are two State Senate races, the 24th and 26th (both in Los Angeles County); and eleven assembly races: 8th and 9th in the San Joaquin Valley, 14th and 18th in Alameda County, 32nd in the San Joaquin Valley, 59th in Orange County, and these Los Angeles County districts: 41, 43, 48, 54, and 57.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg will hear Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s lawsuit on Friday, April 8. The Congresswoman seeks a court order that will stop Georgia election officials from holding a hearing on whether she is qualified to run for Congress. The hearing is expected to last two hours.
Pennsylvania held a special election on April 5 to fill the vacancy in the State House, 116th district. The results: Republican 65.50%; Democratic 29.56%; Libertarian 4.94%.
When this district last elected someone, in November 2020, the results were: Republican 72.31%; Democratic 27.69%.
On April 6, the California Secretary of State issued a new Report of Registration, showing the number of registered voters in each party. This is a supplemental report, because the last report had come out on February 9, but it was incomplete because there hadn’t been enough time to calculate the number of registrants in each U.S. House and legislative district, because the districts had just been drawn. See this link.
Each Report of Registration lists the state chair and contact information, for each party. The new Report lists Markham Robinson as chair of the American Independent Party, but he died on August 25, 2021. The February 9 Report had the same flaw. After the February 9 Report came out, I talked to two employees of the California Secretary of State’s office, informing them. I was assured that this error would be corrected in the future. But, it has not been corrected.
According to Mark Seidenberg, the current chair of the American Independent Party is Wiley Drake. Mark Seidenberg is a former leader of the American Independent Party who now lives in Alaska and who is registered to vote in Alaska.