On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering does not violate the Constitution, and dismissed the cases from North Carolina and Maryland. The vote was 5-4. Here is the opinion in the two combined cases, Rucho v Common Cause, 18-422; and Lamone v Benisek, 18-726.
On June 26, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee passed SB 27 by a vote of 11-4. This is the bill to keep presidential candidates off the presidential primary ballot if they don’t reveal their income tax returns for the last five years. The bill does not affect write-in candidates in presidential primaries. If it is signed into law and not invalidated by courts, probably President Trump will file as a write-in candidate in the California Republican presidential primary in 2020. That would probably cause millions of voters to cast a write-in vote, which in turn would make election administration quite difficult. It costs more work and money to count ballots with write-ins, than it does to count ordinary ballots.
The Utah Elections Division posted a new registration tally on June 18, 2019. See the totals here. The percentages are: Republican 47.24%; Democratic 12.88%; Independent American 2.77%; Libertarian 1.06%; Constitution .37%; Green .12%; United Utah .11%; independent and other 35.44%.
Just prior to the 2018 general election, the percentages were: Republican 48.33%; Democratic 12.51%; Independent American 2.30%; Libertarian .95%; Constitution .36%; Green .09%; United Utah .08%; independent and other 35.39%.
When BAN reports registration data, it always uses active voters only.
Ballot Access News
June 1, 2019 – Volume 35, Number 1
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On June 25, Lance Lehmann, a registered Libertarian, was elected to the Board of Aldermen in Rapid City, South Dakota. He had placed first on June 4, but no one had a majority on that day, so a runoff was held three weeks later, which Lehmann won.
