Nevada SB 121, a bill to provide for top-two primaries for Nevada, introduced in February 2021, is officially dead. It failed to advance by the April 10 cutoff.
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As of mid-April 2021, the number of active registered voters in Florida in each party are: Democratic 5,289,083; Republican 5,184,614; Independent Party 191,199; Libertarian 41,645; Green 7,668; Constitution 3,035; Reform 1,479; Socialism & Liberation 1,275; Ecology 1,034; independent and miscellaneous 3,831,957.
The percentages are: Democratic 36.34%; Republican 35,63%; Independent Party 1.31%; Libertarian .29%; Green .05%; Constitution .02%; Reform .01%; Socialism & Liberation .01%; Ecology .01%; independent and miscellaneous 26.33%.
In October 2020, the percentages were: Democratic 36.72%; Republican 35.79%; Independent Party 1.13%; Libertarian .27%; Green .05%; Constitution .02%; Reform .01%; Socialism & Liberation .01%; Ecology .01%; independent and miscellaneous 25.99%.
Thanks to Timothy Thornburn for help obtaining these numbers. The Florida Secretary of State website posts the Democratic, Republican, and “other” figures every month. But if someone wants the other parties, and the number of independents, the Secretary of State won’t reveal those numbers directly. Instead the Secretary of State’s office mails a floppy disk containing the entire list of registered voters in the state, active and inactive, and one must extract the totals from the disk. The Secretary of State does provide the data directly just before an election, but not at other times.
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Tully v Okeson, 20-1244, on April 30. This is the Indiana case over the law that lets any voter age 65 vote early, but denies the same ability to other voters. The plaintiffs argue this policy violates the 26th amendment, which says states may not “deny or abridge” the right to vote on account of age.
The Kansas Green Party will begin collecting signatures on its party petition on April 22. The petition needs 21,102 signatures and must be finished by October 19, 2021. The Green Party has never been a qualified party in Kansas, although it has tried many times in the past.
South Carolina HB 3262, which would require candidates from parties that nominate by convention to pay filing fees, seems unlikely to pass. It has not moved in a month, and the legislature adjourns in less than four weeks. It had passed the House, and passed one committee in the Senate, but that committee amended it, so if it were to pass the Senate, it would still need to return to the House.