According to Political Wire, the next Democratic presidential debate will only have ten candidates. It is set for September 12.
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This Maine news story explains how Maine would use ranked choice voting in its presidential primaries, assuming Governor Janet Mills signs LD 1083. Maine Republican Party leaders don’t like ranked choice voting. The story notes that the Republican Party is free to use either a presidential primary or a caucus in 2020, and if the party chooses a caucus, the ranked choice bill would have no effect on that process.
On August 28, the Bread & Roses Party held a press conference in Washington, D.C., and said it will run its founder, Jerome Segal, for president in 2020. It hopes to get on the ballot in all the states that are not “swing states.” Currently it is only on the ballot in Maryland. Segal lives in Maryland. Here is his wikipedia page.
The Seattle Times has this editorial, calling for a constitutional amendment on the process by which the U.S. chooses a president. Thanks to Steve Kemp for the link.
Joseph Hero filed to run for a local office in Lake County, Indiana, earlier this year. He is a Republican and the office is partisan, so he filed in the Republican primary. However, in 2015, the Republican Party had “banned” him for ten years because he had supported two independent candidates for local office. The Lake County Election Board therefore wouldn’t let him run in the 2019 primary. On August 26, he sued the board, arguing that the board had no right to exclude him. There is nothing in the Indiana election code that permits a party to “ban” people from running in the party primary.
The case is Hero v Lake County Election Board, n.d., 2:19cv-319. Here is his Complaint. He does not expect the case to affect the 2019 election.