Unfortunately, when the July 1 2017 Ballot Access News was being prepared for postal mailing, in approximately 30 instances, the middle page was accidentally omitted from the envelope. It appears these faulty mailings went to California. If you happen to be a print subscriber, and your issue was missing pages three and four, please e-mail richardwinger@yahoo.com and I will send the missing page.

The contents of that page were an article about the bill moving the California primary from June to March, amended to apply to midterm year primaries as well as presidential years; an article about the lawsuit in which a North Carolina independent voter is suing to overturn the law that says all members of boards of elections must be members of the two largest parties; an article about the United Utah Party lawsuit against the early deadline for a new party; news about the further demise of straight-ticket devices; an article about HR 3057, the bill in congress for proportional representation; U.S. Supreme Court news; a book review of “Suffragette – My own story” by Emmeline Pankhurst; an article about the Texas sore loser law as applied to presidential candidates being upheld; an article about new research on whether top-two systems help moderates; and further legislative news.

Rwanda holds a presidential election on August 4. Six candidates petitioned for a place on the ballot, but three of them were told they don’t have enough valid signatures. Each candidate needed 600 signatures, with at least twelve signatures from each of the country’s 30 districts. See this story.

The Saturday, July 8, print edition of The New York Times has this op-ed in support of HR 3057, the Congressman Don Beyer bill for proportional representation for most states in U.S. House elections. The co-authors are Rob Richie of Fairvote, and Reihan Salam, editor of National Review.

The authors of the op-ed did not choose the title.