Andrea Raila is seeking the Democratic nomination for Assessor of Cook County, Illinois. According to this story, her name will appear on the March 20 primary ballot, but votes for her won’t be counted.
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This article says the Party of the Center is working hard on its petition to become a qualified party in Kansas.
On February 27, Pennsylvania Republican legislative leaders again asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let the state use the old U.S. House district boundaries this year, instead of the new ones drawn by the State Supreme Court earlier this month. Turzai v League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, 17A909.
The U.S. Supreme Court asked for a response from the League of Women Voters by 3 p.m., March 5, Monday. Meanwhile primary candidates are petitioning to get on the May primary ballot. They each need 1,000 signatures of party members.
On February 27, the South Dakota Senate unanimously passed HB 1012. The bill is now on its way to the Governor. No legislator in either house voted against this bill. It says that a party must meet the vote test every four years. Current law says it must pass the vote test every two years. The bill has an urgency clause so assuming it is signed by the Governor, it will go into effect immediately.
For many years the vote test only had to be met every four years, but could only be satisfied by the gubernatorial vote. Last year, when the legislature eased that law to say any statewide office counts, that had the accidental indirect consequence of requiring the vote test to be met every two years. So the new bill restores the old rule that the vote test need be met only every four years.
On February 28, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee passed SB 1038 by 9-2. It says that candidates who can demonstrate that they are poor may pay a filing fee that is only one-fourth as much money as the normal filing fee.