In Seattle, every voter is entitled to receive four campaign finance vouchers, and to give a voucher to his or her favorite candidates. The recipient candidate can then collect $25 from the city, to use for a campaign for city elective office. The money comes from a property tax levy.
Opponents of that program challenged it in state court, but lost. Now they have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their appeal.
Here is the cert petition in Elster v City of Seattle, 19-608.
The Arkansas Republican presidential primary ballot with show President Donald Trump, Bill Weld, and Rocky De La Fuente.
The Arkansas Democratic presidential ballot will list 18 names: Michael Bennet, Joseph Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Cory Booker, Mosie Boyd, Steve Bullock, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Joe Sestak, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, Marianne Williamson, and Andrew Yang.
No other party has a presidential primary. The Libertarian Party is on the ballot but nominates by convention.
On November 12, Mark Sanford, former Governor of South Carolina, dropped out of the race for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination. Thanks to Political Wire for this news.
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.
