According to this TASS news story, all eight presidential candidates on the ballot in the March 18 Russian presidential election are invited into televised debates. However, incumbent President Vladimir Putin has declined to participate in any debates.
The Santa Fe New Mexico, the city’s daily newspaper, has this story about how activists who favor ranked choice voting won their long struggle.
On February 25, Ohio Governor John Kasich was on ABC-TV’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”. He said, “We may be beginning to see the end of the two party system. I’m starting to really wonder if we’re going to see a multi-party system at some point in the future of this country…I’m saying that our young people are fed up and why I’m saying that the prospect of a multi-party system in this country is a real possibility.” Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link. The Kasich portion of the show starts about 60% of the way through.
On February 24, the Alabama Republican Party state committee voted to prevent two particular individuals from running in Republican primaries this year. See this story. One of them was rejected because he had had an earlier association with the Constitution Party.
Ballot Access News
February 1, 2018 – Volume 33, Number 9
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Table of Contents
- BILLS TO EASE BALLOT ACCESS PENDING IN ELEVEN STATES
- MAINE REFERENDUM TO SAVE RANKED CHOICE VOTING
- VIRGINIA WIN
- PENNSYLVANIA WIN
- FLORIDA INITIATIVE FOR EX-FELON VOTING RIGHTS QUALIFIES
- FLORIDA VOTERS UNLIKELY TO BE ABLE TO VOTE FOR SEMI-CLOSED PRIMARIES
- U.S. SUPREME COURT SETS CONFERENCE FOR DEBATE CASE
- BOOK REVIEW: HACKS, THE INSIDE STORY OF THE BREAK-INS AND BREAKDOWNS THAT PUT DONALD TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE
- LAWSUIT NEWS
- 2018 CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY DATES
- LAST TIME SOMEONE NOT A DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN NOMINEE WAS ELECTED TO EITHER BRANCH OF CONGRESS
- 2018 PETITIONING
- VLADIMIR PUTIN SUBMITS INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE PETITION
- COLORADO LEGISLATOR BECOMES INDEPENDENT
- FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION PUBLISHES 2016 ELECTION RETURNS
- WILLIE WILSON, WHO SOUGHT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION IN 2016, IS SUING THE PARTY
- SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL