Virginia U.S. House member Don Beyer’s bill for proportional representation for most states, in U.S. House elections, now has a bill number: HR 3057.
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UtahPolicy.com has released the results of its poll about the United Utah Party. The poll finds that 63% of Utah voters say they would be open to voting for the party’s candidates.
On July 3, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, delivered a speech to both houses of the national legislature of France, and said he wants proportional representation for France. Although western and central Europe generally uses proportional representation, Britain and France do not.
Macron also said that the government of the European Union must become more democratic. He said Britain left the European Union because of the problem that it is not response to European voters.
According to this story, a poll of the Alabama Republican primary for this year’s special U.S. Senate election shows Roy Moore leading. However, Alabama election law provides for runoff primaries, even in special elections. The primary is August 15. The runoff is September 26. The poll results are: Roy Moore 31%; incumbent U.S. Senator Luther Strange 23%; Congressman Mo Brooks 21%; no one else has as much as 5%.
The election is December 12, 2017. Due to Alabama’s very restrictive ballot access laws, it is not likely that anyone will be on that ballot except the Republican and Democratic nominees.
The Centrist Project hopes to elect some independent candidates to congress and state legislatures, and especially hopes these independents will win in legislative bodies that are closely balanced between the Republican and Democratic members. Political scientist Seth Masket comments here about that strategy.