On June 9, a Georgia state trial court refused to enjoin the use of Georgia’s vote-counting machines in the June 20 special U.S. House election. See this story. The trial had been held two days earlier. Curling v Kemp, Fulton County 2017cv-290630. Thanks to Robin Chand for the link.
UPDATE: here is the decision. Thanks to Garland Favorito and Bev Harris for the decision.
Two Utah state representatives, one from each major party, have this op-ed in favor of ranked choice voting in the Deseret News for Sunday, June 11. The Deseret News has the largest circulation on Sunday of any Utah newspaper. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link.
According to this story, at least three members of the U.S. House have responded to the June 11 Puerto Rico vote by saying they will work for statehood for Puerto Rico. They are all Democrats: Darren Soto and Stephanie Murphy of Florida, and Jared Huffman of California. Soto is on the Subcommittee that would consider a statehood bill.
The U.S. Supreme Court had Gill v Whitford, 16-1161, for consideration at its June 8 conference. However, on June 12, when the Court released the list of actions it had taken on June 8, there was no news about Gill v Whitford. This means the Court hasn’t decided yet what to do. The next news from the Court will be on Monday, June 19. The case is from Wisconsin, where the lower court had thrown out the legislative districts as a partisan gerrymander. The state is trying to get the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the lower court decision.
La Republique En Marche, the political party formed in France last year by Emmanuel Macron, has emerged as the strongest party in the Parliamentary election of June 11. There will be another round on June 18. See this story.
