New York State Senator Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn) has introduced a bill to let prisoners vote. They would be deemed to be living in the community in which they were living before they started serving their sentence. See this story.
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Minnesota is having presidential primaries this year for the first time in many decades. The new law gives state party leaders the discretion to say which names should be on their presidential primary. The Minnesota Republican Party has decided to list only President Donald Trump. The party also used its discretion to eliminate write-in space on the ballot. See this story.
The only other states in which state party leaders have complete control over which names appear on presidential primary ballots are Florida and Georgia.
Every two years, the Federal Election Commission publishes a book of election returns for federal office. The 2018 election returns book, Federal Elections 2018, is now available on-line. It will be in print in a month or two. Thanks to Thomas Jones, and also the FEC itself, for the link.
Ballot Access News
October 1, 2019 – Volume 35, Number 5
| This issue was printed on yellow paper. |
Table of Contents
- MAINE BECOMES FIRST STATE TO USE RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN A PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION
- CALIFORNIA TAX RETURNS LAW ENJOINED
- GEORGIA LOSS
- ALABAMA PROCEDURAL WIN ON VOTER LIST
- LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT RULES
- ALTERNATE VOTING SYSTEMS ADVANCE
- HEARING HELD ON D.C. STATEHOOD BILL
- AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY
- TOP-TWO INITIATIVE LIKELY TO QUALIFY IN FLORIDA
- REPUBLICAN PARTY CANCELS SOME PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
- WHICH MINOR PARTY RAN THE MOST STATE HOUSE CANDIDATES?
- 2019 PARTY REVENUE FROM STATE INCOME TAX “CHECK-OFF”
- TOTALS FOR THE ENTIRE NATION THROUGH HISTORY, 2000-2019
- SPECIAL U.S. HOUSE ELECTIONS
- PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS
- ELIZABETH WARREN ENDORSES A WORKING FAMILIES NOMINEE
- FREE USEFUL REFERENCE BOOK
- HOWARD SCHULTZ WITHDRAWS
- REFORM PARTY
- SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL
The New York State Commission that is charged with writing a proposed law for public funding of campaigns is holding public hearings. On October 30 it met in Buffalo. Here is an interesting newspaper story about the hearing. The headline is misleading. If one reads the article, one finds that the public witnesses were almost entirely against banning fusion.
The quote by Jeremy Zellner, a Democratic Party official who wants to ban fusion, is completely out-of-state. He says half of all election litigation in the United States is in New York. That was true back in the 1980’s, but since then New York state has eased most of the hyper-technical petition rules that caused that litigation. Thanks to Steve Kamp for the link.