Huffington Post has this article by Harry Kresky and Tiani Coleman, urging that the government exert more control over political parties. The analysis simply assumes that the voters are never going to replace either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party with a new major party. The analysis therefore assumes that the only hope for more democratic control over the government is to force those two parties to be more internally democratic.

The article would be better if it mentioned the fact that voters in France this year formed a new party, and then put it into power. Similar events have happened in Canadian provincial elections, and in many Latin American countries. The United States signed the Helsinki Accords, and all the nations that signed pledged that they would not merge any political party with the government.

On September 13, the Michigan legislature passed HB 4892. It allows candidates to get on the ballot in local 2017 elections, in instances when election officials had given erroneous information to the candidates about the deadline. No one voted against the bill in the Senate.

This summary in the Gotham Gazette, about the September 12 New York city primary results for Mayor and other city office, says the turnout was quite poor, and that Sal Albanese appears to have won the Reform Party primary.