Frontloading HQ has this story giving the details on 2019 changes in Republican Party presidential delegate selection.
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Mission Viejo, a California city in Orange County, had decided to use Cumulative Voting to elect all five of its city councilmembers in the 2020 election. However, on September 18, the California Secretary of state ruled that Cumulative Voting is not legal in California for general law cities.
Under Cumulative Voting, if there are five seats to be filled, a voter has five votes, but he or she can spread them around so as to give two votes to one candidate, and three votes to another candidate, if the voter votes for only two candidates. The voter can even give all five votes to a single candidate.
No city in California has ever used Cumulative Voting.
Law Professor Derek T. Muller has published a scholarly paper about presidential tax returns and various laws and proposals to force presidential candidates to reveal them. Here is a link to the summary. The summary page has a link to the paper itself.
The paper has the complete history of which presidential candidates have released their returns in the past, and when in the cycle they have done so. The paper reveals that “tax return” is a surprisingly imprecise term.
A lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Montana, challenging the state’s ban on out-of-state circulators, and the state’s ban on paying circulators on a per-signature basis (for initiatives) was filed on May 9, 2018. After extensive discovery lasting many months, the case is finally moving to a decision. The briefs for summary judgment on each side are due October 4, 2019. The case is before U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell, a Reagan appointee.
Jacobin has this article by two Bernie Sanders supporters, Bhaskar Sunkara and Micah Uetricht, attacking the Working Families Party’s process for endorsing a presidential candidate. A few days ago the Working Families Party endorsed Elizabeth Warren. The article claims the process was opaque and unfair.