The Tampa Bay Times here recommends that voters vote against Amendment Three, the Florida top-two primary initiative.
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The presidential debate sponsored by Free and Equal and Open the Debates will be held Thursday, October 8, at 6 p.m. Denver time. The debate is in Denver and the five participants will be in the room with each other. Anyone may watch via computer by going to freeandequal.org.
The five candidates are Howie Hawkins, Gloria De La Riva, Don Blankenship, Brock Pierce, and Brian Carroll. Eligibility required being on the ballot in at least eight states. Those who were eligible but who chose not to participate are Jo Jorgensen, Rocky De La Fuente, and Kanye West. President Trump and Joe Biden are forbidden by their contracts with the Commission on Presidential Debates to participate in any other general election debates.
The fate of the Trump-Biden remaining two debates is in doubt. The Commission on Presidential Debates wants them to be virtual, but President Trump said on October 8 that he will only continue to debate if the debaters are in the same room with each other.
Meanwhile, Level the Playing Field is readying its cert petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, in Level the Playing Field v FEC, which charges that the Commission is violating federal campaign finance law and that the FEC is derelict for not enforcing those laws.
This November, the New Mexico Libertarian Party has nominees for state house in twelve districts. This is the most candidates on the ballot for that office in New Mexico for any party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, since the 1910’s decade.
New Mexico has 70 state house districts. In 2018 the Libertarian Party only had two candidates for State House in New Mexico.
Although the Green Party was strong in New Mexico in the 1990’s, it never had more than four nominees for state house in any one election year.
This year the New Mexico Libertarian Party also has five nominees for State Senate.
This news story describes the oral argument in Craig v Simon, the Minnesota lawsuit over the timing of the election for the U.S. House, 2nd district, election. The story does not say anything about what the judge asked, or whether the judge appears to be leaning one way or the other.
On October 7, a poll was released for Florida’s Amendment Three, the top-two initiative. It shows that 58% of the voters favor it. It needs 60% in order to pass. See this story.