Proponents of ranked choice voting will attempt to qualify a statewide initiative to use ranked choice voting in Oregon primaries and general elections. It they succeed, it would be on the ballot in 2024.
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The three Georgia lawsuits over the boundaries of the U.S. House districts will probably have a trial beginning February 7. The three cases are Common Cause v Raffensperger, Pendergrass v Raffensperger, and Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v State. Although the three cases are not combined, they are coordinating the presentation of evidence. These cases will have a major effect on U.S. House petition requirements in 2022 for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties.
On January 26, the Arkansas voters and groups who are challenging the new redistricting for lower house of the state legislature filed this reply brief. Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP v Arkansas Board of Apportionment, e.d., 4:21cv-1239.
Hanford, California, is a city of almost 60,000. It is the county seat of Kings County, in the San Joaquin Valley. In the last city election, a registered Libertarian, Kalish Morrow, was elected to the five-person city council. Afterwards, the Mayor, Francisco Ramirez, also switched his voter registration to Libertarian. See this article about Morrow.
On January 26, the Ohio League of Women Voters asked the State Supreme Court to again reject the work of the Ohio Redistricting Commission. The State Supreme Court already rejected the commission’s original plan, and the League says the revised plan is also inadequate. Here is the filing in League of Women Voters of Ohio v Ohio Redistricting Commission, 2021-1193.
The Commission is also working on a revised U.S. House plan, but that isn’t finished yet.