The Daily Beast has this article about the June 4 campaign finance report filed by Jill Stein. The article says that the Stein campaign remains committed to asking recount donors their opinion on how to spend the remaining funds.
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On May 31, the California Senate passed SB 1394 by 24-13. This is the bill that outlaws paying circulators on a per-signature basis. In the past, Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed similar bills. Ironically, the author of the bill, Senator Josh Newman, was recalled on June 5.
On June 4, the city council of Las Cruces unanimously voted to use ranked choice voting for city elections, starting in 2019. See this story. Thanks to Michael Drucker for this news.
Writer Dan Conley here predicts that the Democratic presidential primaries in 2020 will not settle who the presidential nominee will be, and that the delegates to the national convention will make the actual choice. He points out that Democratic national rules require proportional selection of delegates in all Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses. He also points out that California will hold its primary in 2020 in March, so that many Democrats (under the proportional system) will end up with a fairly substantial number of delegates from California, encouraging them to keep campaigning in the primaries of April, May, and June. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
North Carolina holds primaries in May for parties that have been on the ballot for at least four years. Newly-qualifying parties submit petitions after the primary, and nominate by convention. On June 5, the legislature passed an omnibus election law bill that says newly-qualifying parties may not nominate anyone who had lost another party’s primary earlier that year. The bill, SB 486, passed the House 66-44 and the Senate 30-12.
The part of the bill concerning “sore losers” was prompted by news reports that several candidates who lost major party primaries this year were thinking about seeking the Constitution Party nomination, or the Green Party nomination, this month. The part of SB 486 on “sore losers” is section 3.4 of the bill, amending election law section 163A-953.