Pennsylvania just held its last election with a straight-ticket device. This Philadelphia Inquirer story looks at the election data from the November 5, 2019 election, and finds that the straight-ticket device was used by more Republicans than Democrats, which is surprising. However the data is somewhat ambiguous because a few counties didn’t provide data.
Seventeen Democrats qualified for the Alabama 2020 presidential primary. See the list here, from the Democratic Party’s web page.
The 2020 Alabama Republican presidential primary will have only three candidates: President Donald Trump, Bill Weld, and Rocky De La Fuente. Each candidate needed 500 signatures. See the Republican Party’s web page. There will also be a slate of unpledged delegates.
For U.S. House, 7th district, no Republican congressional candidate qualified, even though no petition was needed, just a filing fee.
This article explains how the 2020 Alaska Democratic Party-administered presidential primary will work. Voters will use a ranked choice ballot. They will vote for approximately a month, and the results will be counted and announced on April 4. Voting will occur at 20 vote centers around the state.
The Minnesota legislature re-convenes February 11, 2020. Some legislators will introduce a bill to ease the requirements for getting on a presidential primary ballot, and hope to pass the bill in time to affect the 2020 Republican presidential primary. Current Minnesota law gives a party that is holding a presidential primary complete discretion on who can get on its presidential primary ballot. The Republican Party of Minnesota is only putting President Trump on its ballot.
The bill would enable any candidate to get on with a filing fee, and that would enable other Republican candidates to run. See this story.
