Green Party Candidates Win Enough Primary Write-ins to Qualify for Tucson Ballot

Posted on by September 1, 2019
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Tucson elects a mayor and city council on November 5, 2019, in a partisan election. The Green Party candidates were all write-in candidates in the Green Party primary. According to this story, all four of them received enough primary write-in votes to be placed on the November ballot.

The Green Party is not ballot-qualified in Arizona, but it is ballot-qualified inside Tucson, and has been for some years. Because it has ongoing status inside Tucson, as opposed to being a “new” party, it faced a requirement that its write-in candidates poll a certain number of write-in votes, as opposed to getting just one write-in.

Evidence Presented to US House Committee on Likelihood of Flawed Georgia Vote-Counting Process in 2018

Posted on by September 1, 2019
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The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee is investigating Georgia’s vote-counting machines’ performance in the November 2018 election. According to this story by Salon’s Executive Editor, Andrew O’Hehir, new evidence shows especially suspicious evidence about how the machines performed in the Lieutenant Governor’s race.

California State Appeals Court Says Legislature May Not Provide for Public Funding of Campaigns Unless Voters Repeal Existing Statutory Ban

Posted on by August 31, 2019
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On August 26, the California State Appeals Court issued a 20-page opinion in Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v Newsom, C086334. It says that a 2016 law passed by the legislature, authorizing public funding of campaigns by the state or any local government, is invalid. This is because in 1988 the voters passed Proposition 73, which bans public funding of campaigns. Proposition 73 did not put the ban into the state constitution. It was merely a statute. But California generally does not allow the legislature to repeal or amend laws enacted by initiative, unless that original initiative said the legislature could amend it. So, the 2016 law is void.

The issue is complicated because of the numerous changes to the California campaign finance laws. It is likely the state will ask the State Supreme Court to review this decision.