The New Mexico Forward Party has finished its petition for party status. It has collected 5,000 signatures, and needs 3,560.
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Several Delaware legislators from each major party have introduced HB 183. It would provide that in special legislative elections, primaries be held to choose party nominees. Under current law, party committees choose the nominees.
Chris Powell, a Libertarian Party activist in Oklahoma, has this article explaining the damage top-two systems do to minor parties and the voters who want to vote for minor party candidates. The article is published by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.
An initiative petition for a top-two system is currently circulating in Oklahoma.
Indiana is one of six states that still has a straight-ticket device. This newspaper story describes the attempts being made to abolish it.
On December 19, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed SB 293. It says that postal ballots must arrive in the election administration office by election day. See this story.