On March 26, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin signed HB 325. The old law let voters switch parties as late as a month before any primary. The new law says voters can’t switch parties after December 31 of the year before any particular primary.
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On March 25, the Hawaii Democratic Party released its plan for the 2020 presidential selection process. The plan goes for the party to hold its own presidential primary on Saturday, April 4, 2020. Although the party’s polls will close that day at 3 p.m., the party will also arrange for early voting. See Josh Putnam’s description here.
Amy Howe has this detailed description of the March 26 argument in the U.S. Supreme Court in the partisan gerrymandering cases from North Carolina and Maryland.
On Tuesday, March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the two partisan gerrymander cases, from North Carolina and Maryland. The North Carolina case, Rucho v Common Cause, was argued at 10 a.m. and lasted 70 minutes. The Maryland case, Benisek v Lamone, followed and as this post is being written, is still underway. There should be a great deal of news about the two hearings available from the general media, very soon.
Rhode Island Senator Mark McKenney (D-Warwick) has introduced SB 589. It eases the deadline for voters who change parties. Current law says voters can’t change parties during the 90 days before the September primary. The bill would change that to 30 days.