A new group called vice.run has launched a campaign to change election laws and practices, to allow a popular vote in November for president, and then a separate popular vote on the same November ballot for vice-president. See the website here.
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Kansas does not have government-administered presidential primaries. However, the Kansas Democratic Party will administer its own primary on Saturday, May 2, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Also it will allow absentee voting in the period before that primary. The primary will use Ranked Choice Voting. FrontloadingHQ has the details here.
On May 2, the California Senate passed SB 27. This is the bill to keep presidential primary candidates off the ballot if they don’t release the last five years of their income tax returns. The vote was 27-10, with all Democrats who voted voting “yes”, and all Republicans who voted voting “no.” Now the bill goes to the Assembly.
The bill does not prevent anyone from filing as a write-in candidate in a presidential primary.
On May 2, the Arizona House defeated SB 1154 by 28-32. This is the bill that would have moved the non-presidential primary from late August to early August. It would also have moved the petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties from February of the election year, to November of the odd year before the election.
Some county committees of the Florida Democratic Party have recently resolved that the party should let independents vote in its primaries. Although Florida election law says only party members can vote in primaries, the U.S. Supreme Court said in 1986 in Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut that parties have a freedom of association right to invite independents to vote in their primaries, regardless of state law.
As recently as April 18, 2009, the chair of the Florida Democratic Party, Terrie L. Rizzo, wrote this comment on a party facebook page, “The party doesn’t make the determination on who gets to vote in our primary.” She has been chair since 2017. It is believed that since April 18, she has learned about the Tashjian decision.