On May 21, the Peace & Freedom Party of California executive committee said that it had surveyed the state central committee, and knows that a majority support Gloria La Riva for President and Leonard Peltier for vice-president. La Riva had won the party’s presidential primary on March 3.
This story describes the third general election debate of 1960, in which Richard Nixon and John Kennedy were in different states at the time of their debate. The story says that the remote format worked quite well.
This Montana news story says the state Green Party disavows most of the candidates running for congress or state office in its own primary. If Montana law allowed new or small qualified parties to nominate by convention, this problem would not exist. The problem is made worse by the fact that Montana has an open primary. Any registered voter can pay a filing fee to get on the primary ballot of any party.
Tentative results from the Independent Party of Oregon show that Joe Biden won its party-administered presidential primary. This probably means that the party will nominate Biden. Oregon permits fusion, so Biden would have the ballot label “Democratic, Independent”.
On May 6, the Ninth Circuit dismissed the lawsuit Citizens for Fair Representation v Newsom, 18-17458. This is the case filed in 2017 that argues the population of California legislative districts is so huge, ordinary residents of California have no realistic chance to communicate with their legislators. State Senate districts in California have over 1,000,000 residents; Assembly districts 500,000.
Here is the six-page opinion, which says none of the plaintiffs have standing. It will not be published. Thanks to Kevin Sabo for this news.
