On October 27, the Guam legislature passed bill 156-34. It moves the primary from the last Saturday in August to the first Saturday in August. It also moves the filing deadline for primary candidates from 60 days before the primary, to 90 days before the primary. The Election Commission requested the bill, so as to give itself more time to adminster elections.
J. H. Snider, an expert on the New York state constitution, has this op-ed advocating that voters vote “Yes” on November 7, 2017, on whether to call a state constitutional convention. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
On October 14, Louisiana held a special election for State Treasurer. The ballot contained four Republicans, one Democrat, and one Libertarian. Here are the results. However, one must manipulate the box that has the election date. It defaults to November 18; it is necessary to convert that box to October 14.
On October 25, the California Attorney General released this summary of a proposed initiative to repeal the top-two system. The proponents are now free to print up petitions and circulate them. The summary says that if the initiative passed, there would be no significant increase in election administration costs.
On October 25, a trial court in Alberta ruled that the Canadian election law, requiring candidates for House of Commons to pay a fee of $1,000, is unconstitutional. See this story. The law also requires 100 signatures, and that part of the law was upheld.
