On May 28, the California Senate passed SB 212. It lets non-charter cities and counties use Ranked Choice Voting for their own elections, if they want to. The law already lets charter cities and counties do this.
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On May 17, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts signed LB 411. It lowers the number of signatures for non-presidential independents from 10% of the registered voters, to 4,000 for statewide office and 2,000 for U.S. House. LB 411 is an omnibus election law bill with many other provisions.
This bill passed because the old 10% petition requirement had been invalidated in federal court last year. In court, the state had conceded that the old law was unconstitutional. The new requirements just enacted match the same requirements that had existed until they had been raised in 2016.
This story says that the results of the British election for members of the European Parliament are: Brexit Party 28, Liberal Democrats 15, Labour 10, Green 7, and Conservative 3.
Ballot Access News
May 1, 2019 – Volume 34, Number 12
| This issue was printed on blue paper. |
Table of Contents
- THREE REPRESSIVE BALLOT ACCESS BILLS ADVANCE, BUT FIVE OTHERS ARE DEFEATED
- LIBERTARIANS SUE KENTUCKY
- PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES LAWSUIT LOSES
- NEW MEXICO BALLOT ACCESS BILL SIGNED
- BILLS TO REQUIRE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO SHOW TAX RETURNS
- NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE BILLS
- RANKED CHOICE VOTING BILLS
- D.C. STATEHOOD BILL HAS 203 CO-SPONSORS
- BOOK REVIEW: DEMOCRACY AND TRUTH
- CALIFORNIA TOP-TWO SUPPORTERS GIVE UP LEGAL DEFENSE OF PARTY LABEL LAW
- FLORIDA DEMOCRATS MAY ALTER PRIMARY
- NEW YORK FUSION IS IN DANGER AGAIN
- DATES OF PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
- MAJOR PARTY CONVENTION DATES/CITIES 1868-2020
- GREEN PARTY PLACES SECOND IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND LEGISLATURE
- WILLIAM WELD
- HOWARD SCHULTZ CAMPAIGNS
- PROHIBITION PARTY NOMINATES
- INDEPENDENT ELECTED TO LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE
- IOWA LEGISLATOR SWITCHES PARTIES
- APRIL 2019 ELECTIONS
- ERRATA
- SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL
The Sixth Circuit will hear Schmitt v Husted, 19-3196, on Wednesday, June 26. This is the case on whether election officials can reject a local initiative, even though it has enough valid signatures, because they don’t think it would be legal if it passed. The U.S. District Court had ruled in favor of the initiative proponents, and then the state appealed.