Unite America, formerly called Centrist Project, holds its first national meeting August 17-19 in Denver. Here is the agenda.
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Congressmember Grace Meng (D-New York) has introduced HJR 138, which would lower the voting age to sixteen. See this story. Thanks to Electionline for the news.
Meng represents central Queens, and was first elected to Congress in 2012.
On August 10, the final brief was filed in the Washington State Supreme Court in Guerra v Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings, 95347-3. Here is a link. The case challenges the constitutionality of Washington state’s treatment of three Democratic presidential electors in 2016. They voted for persons other than Hillary Clinton in the electoral college, and the state then fined each of them.
The Indiana Secretary of State, Connie Lawson, is running for another four-year term this November. Some Indiana voters have challenged her ability to do so, because of the state’s term limits law. See this story by Steve Goodale of News Growl.
This TPM story says when Republican Congressman Chris Collins is replaced as a nominee by the New York Republican Party, the Democrats will try to prevent that. Collins said on August 11 that he will not run for re-election, even though he had won the June 2018 primary.