The Party for Socialism and Liberation has chosen Gloria La Riva for President, & Leonard Peltier for Vice-President. See this campaign announcement.
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The government of Quebec is now backing a proposed change in provincial elections. The government favors of Mixed Proportional Representation system, in which two-thirds of the seats would continue to be elected in single-member districts, but the other third would be chosen proportionately. See this story.
On September 24, Congressmember Jaime Raskin introduced HR 4464 into the U.S. House of Representatives. It mandates that all states used ranked choice voting for congressional elections (both in primaries and in the general election). It has eleven co-sponsors. Raskin is from Maryland. The co-sponsors are all Democrats, and include four from Massachusetts, two from California, two from Tennessee, and one each from Maine, New York, and Virginia.
The text is not yet up on the web page for Congress.
Here is the Maryland Libertarian Party’s opening Brief in Johnston v Lamone, in the Fourth Circuit. The issue is whether it makes any sense for a party that has over 22,000 registered members, to be forced to file a petition signed by 10,000 voters to get back on the ballot. The party argues that the petition is completely redundant, because it is obvious that at least 10,000 voters want the party on the ballot; otherwise they wouldn’t be registered in the party.
This case is a case of first impression. There has never before been any party in this situation, in any state. The U.S. District Court had ruled against the party, speculating (with no evidence) that perhaps the 22,000 registrants are no longer interested in the party, but remain registered in it because of inertia.
Justin Alexander has this interesting analysis of the recent decision by the South Carolina Republican Party to cancel the 2020 presidential primary. It appears in Fitsnews, a South Carolina politics blog based in Columbia. As Alexander notes, the decision was not made by the Republican state convention, so it appears to be a decision that flouts the party’s own rules. He predicts that one of the Republican presidential candidates will sue the party.