Texas House Bill 4128, which would have replaced presidential electors who don’t vote for the presidential candidate who received the most popular votes in Texas, will not pass the legislature.  It had passed the House Committee but didn’t get any further.

Texas is the only state in 2016 in which some Republican presidential electors voted for someone other than the person who got the most popular votes in that state.  One Republican presidential elector voted for John Kasich, and another voted for Ron Paul.

A bill to replace “disobedient” electors has now been introduced in two sessions of the Texas legislature (2017 and 2019) but never passed.

Maine is the only state that hasn’t decided yet whether to have presidential primaries in 2020.  The legislature expects to adjourn June 19, and if no bill for a presidential primary passes, the state will use caucuses.

Democrats in the legislature want a presidential primary, but the state is worrying about paying for primaries.

Ballot Access News has just learned that in 2018, the Kentucky deadline for non-presidential independent candidate deadlines was moved from August to early June.  However, no change was made to the petition deadline for presidential candidates, which is still in September.  Thanks to Ken Moellman for this news.

It is not likely that the June deadline for office other than president is unconstitutional, because the Kentucky primary is in May.  Generally, for office other than president, courts allow the petition deadlines to be somewhat early in the year, as long as that petition deadline is later than the primary.