Facing South has this article about Texas judicial elections, which are partisan. The story says that even though many thinkers deplore partisan judicial elections, the Texas Constitution requires them. For the Constitution to be changed, the voters would need to approve the change, and the story says that polls show voters like partisan elections for state court judges.
The Working Families Party of Connecticut re-elected two of its three city councilmembers in Hartford on November 5. See this story.
Vox has this interview with Libertarian gubernatorial nominee John Hicks. In the interview, Hicks urges all Kentucky residents, but especially unhappy Republicans, to consider supporting ranked choice voting. As virtually everyone reading this post probably already knows, no one got a majority in the Kentucky gubernatorial election on November 5. Thanks to June Genis for the link.
Candidates get on the Arkansas Republican presidential primary, and the Arkansas Democratic presidential primary, by paying a filing fee. No petition is needed. The deadline is Monday, November 11. That is a holiday but it is still possible to file that day.
So far, only two Republicans have filed, according to the Secretary of State’s web page. They are President Trump and Rocky De La Fuente. So far, fourteen Democrats have filed. See the list at this link. First, choose “candidate information”. Then choose, “View List of All Candidates…” Then select “sort by position”. Then scroll down to the bottom to see presidential candidates.
This story says the petition to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom has 600,000 signatures. But it needs 1,500,000 valid signatures by February 2020.
