Rocky Anderson, former Mayor of Salt Lake City, formed the Justice Party in 2012 and was its presidential nominee. The party has not generally participated in elections since 2012, but it intends to petition for party status in several states for the 2018 election.
It appears to be one of only two political parties that had a booth at Politicon, held in Pasadena, California July 29-30. The Libertarian Party also had a booth. Neither of the major parties had a booth.
The Guam legislative committee that handles election law bills will hear Bill 45 on August 7. The bill abolishes partisan primaries, to save taxpayers $400,000 per election year. It also converts the legislature from a full-time legislature to a part-time legislature. The bill is backed by Guam Citizens for Public Accountability, which has this commentary on the bill.
Ballot Access News
July 1, 2017 – Volume 33, Number 2
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This article in the Washington Post’s The Fix explains new political science research by Andrew Hall and Daniel Thompson, of Stanford. Their research shows that when one of the major parties nominates an extremist for U.S. House, that nominee is more likely to lose the general election. This is partly because the extremist candidate’s existence causes increased voter turnout among the supporters of the other major party.
The plaintiffs in Citizens for Fair Representation v Padilla have written an amended complaint, designed to strengthen the case. This is the lawsuit that says ordinary voters in California have no true representation in the legislature, because State Senate districts have almost 1,000,000 population and Assembly districts have almost 500,000 population. Therefore, ordinary voters have virtually no chance to communicate meaningfully with their own state legislators.
The state does not agree that the court should permit an amended complaint. A hearing will be held August 25 on the issue of whether the amended complaint can be filed.
