Political scientist Bernard Tamas has this article in The Conversation, predicting that minor parties will grow stronger in the coming period in the United States. The Conversation is an on-line forum for scholarly articles.
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Here is the text of HR 3863, by Congressmember Don Beyer (D-Virginia). It requires states with at least six U.S. House seats to use multi-winner districts. It also mandates ranked choice voting and nonpartisan procedures for drawing district boundaries.
On June 21, the California Green Party posted this appeal to the chairs of the two California legislative committees that handle election law to hold hearings on how the top-two system has worked in California.
In California and other states, legislative committees sometimes hold hearings on matters of public policy even when the legislature is not in session and even though no particular bills are the subject of those hearings.
On June 21, Fairleigh Dickinson University Polls released a poll for the November 2021 New Jersey gubernatorial race. The results: Democratic 48%, Republican 33%, “someone else” 4%; don’t know or won’t vote 14%. See this story.
The poll did not tell the respondents the identity of the other candidates on the ballot. They are the nominees of the Libertarian, Green, and Socialist Workers Parties. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the news.
Lee Drutman uses political science research to show persuasively that the current polarization in the United States is caused by our two-party system. See his FiveThirtyEight.com article here. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.