The newly-appointed members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections are being sworn in on Wednesday, March 21. Then the new board members will have their first meeting. It is presumed that they will confirm that the Green Party is now a ballot-qualified party.
HF 3690 has been introduced in the Minnesota legislature to eliminate the ability of Minnesota cities to use ranked choice voting in elections for their own officers. See this story.
On the afternoon of Monday, March 19, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Republican legislative leaders’ request for a stay on using the new districts. Thanks to Rick Hasen for this news.
Political scientist Seth Masket in this article defends closed primaries. The article is unusually useful because he was already in an on-line twitter debate, so he includes the points raised by opponents of closed primaries, and then he reacts to each one.
On March 19, the 3-judge U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania hearing the U.S. House redistricting case ruled that the Republican legislative leaders who filed the case do not have standing. Therefore, their case is dismissed, and the new districts will be in force. Here is the 24-page ruling in Corman v Torres, m.d., 1:18cv-443. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
