The California Assembly Elections Committee will hear AB 2808 on Wednesday, April 6, at 9 a.m. That is the bill to ban charter cities and charter counties from using ranked choice voting.
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On March 24, former President Donald Trump sued Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and many other individuals, over actions they took in 2016, concerning the campaign. Trump v Clinton, s.d. of Florida, 2:22cv-14102. Here is the Complaint. It asks for a jury trial.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee.
On March 24, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed SB 1527. Among other things, it eases the definition of a qualified party. It reduces the registration requirement from one-half of 1% of the state total, to one-fourth of 1%. This is the first bill enacted in calendar year 2022 that improves ballot access.
There is still no reaction from the Eleventh Circuit over the petition for rehearing filed in the Georgia ballot access case. The case challenges the requirements for minor party and independent candidates to get on the ballot for U.S. House. Libertarian Party of Georgia v Raffensperger, 21-13199.
Generally, petitions for rehearing are rejected within two weeks after they have been filed.
On March 23, North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger invalidated over half the signatures on the statewide term limits initiative. The initiative needed 31,164 signatures, and the proponents submitted 46,366. See this Ballotpedia story.
Proponents of the initiative strongly dispute the Secretary of State’s conclusion, and will bring a lawsuit to try to validate their petition.