Independent candidate Rick Kloos has qualified for the November 2018 Kansas ballot as an independent candidate for Governor. He is the first independent to appear for that office since 1990. He is also the first independent gubernatorial candidate to ever overcome the 5,000-signature requirement. The requirement for statewide independents before 1991 was 2,500 signatures. The number of signatures was increased in 1990, but did not take effect until 1991. Here is the web page for Kloos.
Jack Bergeson, age 17, has paid the $2,207 filing fee to qualify for the Democratic primary ballot. He is running for Governor of Kansas. He is the first person to have filed for the 2018 race for Governor, in either major party primary. Here is his web page.
Here is a link to the Kansas Secretary of State’s list of primary candidates for 2018 for all federal and state offices.
Election Data Services has used recent census data to predict which states will gain and which states will lose electoral votes after the 2020 census. See this Daily Kos map and article. Thanks to Political Wire for the link. The map shows the number of projected future U.S. House seats. To know the future electoral vote of each state, add “2” to the number shown on the map.
This Macleans article says that the chances are fairly good that the voters of British Columbia will vote in favor of using proportional representation for provincial elections, when the issue is on the ballot in 2019.
Orange County voters, several year ago, voted to make certain county executive positions non-partisan. However, then the Florida State Court of Appeals ruled that counties do not have the authority to make a decision like that. According to this story, Orange County officials will ask the Florida Supreme Court to reverse that decision.
