Here is a story from The Guardian, reporting that businessman Howard Schultz is thinking of running for president in 2020 as an independent.
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Maine Senator Louis Luchini (D-Ellsworth) has introduced LD 245, to provide a presidential primary. Maine is one of the few states that has always used caucuses instead of presidential primaries.
On Wednesday, January 23, the New Mexico House State Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee will hear HB 55. This is the National Popular Vote Plan bill. By coincidence, the similar Colorado bill has a legislative hearing the same day. Thanks to Rick Lass for this news.
Commonwealth Magazine has this article by Greg Dennis, comparing top-two with ranked choice voting.
South Carolina Representative Bill Taylor (R-Aiken) has introduced HB 3129. It bans fusion. Currently, South Carolina, New York, and Connecticut, are the three states in which disaggregated fusion is used frequently. “Disaggregated fusion” means that the ballot lets a voter choose which party label to support, when a candidate is nominated by two parties. In 2018, minor parties that nominated some major party nominees were the Working Families Party and the American Party,