Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke) has again introduced his bill to convert elections for Congress and partisan state office to a top-two system, except that his new bill advances the top four candidates. See HB 360 here. The bill is flawed because it doesn’t re-define “political party”. In Virginia, a qualified party is one that polled at least 10% for any statewide office at either of the last two elections. The top-two system eliminates party nominees, so if the bill passed, the definition of a political party would be a group that had polled 10% for President (other offices would no longer count).

No party, other than the Republican and Democratic Parties, has polled as much as 10% of the presidential vote in the entire nation since 1968.

On December 31, U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Biggs, an Obama appointee, struck down North Carolina’s law requiring voters at the polls to show certain kinds of ID, or else to vote provisionally. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v Cooper, m.d., 1:18cv-1034.

Here is the 60-page opinion. The case had been filed in 2018.

See this story about Rocky De La Fuente’s upcoming hearing in the Minnesota Supreme Court, over the constitutionality of letting the Republican Party determine that only President Trump can be listed on the Republican presidential primary ballot.