Louisiana will hold special elections for U.S. House in the 2nd district and the 5th district on March 20. Both seats are vacant. Congressman Cedric Richmond will resign to join the Biden administration, and Congressman-elect Luke Letlow died on the evening of December 29 from covid. He was only 41 years old. See this story. Probably no one will get a majority in either seat, and there will be run-offs on April 24.
The effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom has 900,000 signatures, but it probably needs at least 1,900,000 to meet the legal requirement of 1,495,709. Recently a wealthy individual donated $500,000 to the effort. See this story. Thanks to Michael Cowles for the link.
In 2016, a lawsuit was filed against the New Jersey law that won’t allow out-of-state circulators for presidential primary petitions. That case, Arsenault v Way, 2:20cv-8174, is still pending in U.S. District Court. Originally the District Court Judge, Peter Sheridan, had upheld the restriction. On April 19, 2018, the Third Circuit remanded it back to Judge Sheridan. All documents were submitted in the remand as of August 2018, but the Judge still hasn’t acted. This is the only ballot access case that was filed in 2016 that is still pending.
The Independent Voters News has this opinion piece by Green Party activist Mike Feinstein of California. It praises Maine’s use of ranked choice voting, and criticizes Alaska’s new ranked choice voting. The difference is that in Maine, parties continue to have their own nominees, whereas in Alaska, parties have lost the ability to have nominees. It is good that IVN carried this piece, because in the past IVN has been supportive of eliminating party nominees.
Ballot Access News
December 2020 – Volume 36, Number 7
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