On Wednesday, March 29, the Federal Election Commission held a closed meeting and rejected all the evidence that the Commission on Presidential Debates is breaking campaign finance laws. The outcome was not very surprising, because the FEC staff had prepared a finding with that conclusion on March 23.
Thanks to IVN for this news.

It is possible that Level the Playing Field, which had won a court order telling the FEC to look at the evidence again, will now return to U.S. District Court and argue that the March 29 FEC finding is still inadequate.

On April 4, the first special congressional election of 2017 was held in Los Angeles County, California. Two Democrats each polled about 25% of the vote. Because no one got 50%, these two Democrats will face off in a run-off in June. They are Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, and Robert Lee Ahn, a former Los Angeles planning Commissioner who raised more money than any other candidate in this race.

Here are the preliminary election results.

On April 5, the Oklahoma House Elections Committee will hear SB 145. This bill makes it easier for independent presidential candidate, and the presidential nominees of unqualified parties, to get on the ballot. It has already passed the State Senate.

The committee won’t hear the other Oklahoma ballot access bill, SB 350, on April 5. That is the bill to make it easier for a party to remain on the ballot. It had also passed the Senate, but later than SB 145, so perhaps it will have a hearing in the House Committee on April 12.