Guam legislator Joe San Agustin has introduced Bill 45-34. It would abolish all primary elections. The bill does not attempt to tell political parties how to nominate candidates, but presumably they would do that under their own rules. The bill also makes election day a holiday.
Peter Gemma has this article in Daily Caller, describing how top-two systems work in practice.
The Virginia Libertarian Party will attempt to place a gubernatorial candidate on the ballot in the November 2017 election. Chances are, assuming the drive succeeds, there will only be three candidates on the ballot for Governor. The requirement is 10,000 signatures due in mid-June.
In the 2013 election, there were three candidates on the ballot for Virginia governor: Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian.
In the 2009 election, only the Democratic and Republican nominees appeared.
For many years, the New Mexico Secretary of State’s web page has been showing voter registration data only for the Democratic and Republican Parties, instead of all the qualified parties.
However, the Secretary’s web page now lists all qualified parties. The five qualified parties in New Mexico now are Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Better for America. Better for America is the group formed to help Evan McMullin get on the ballot. Because McMullin polled over one-half of 1% for president in New Mexico, his party is still on the ballot. Thanks to Angel Espinoza, from the Secretary of State’s office, for this information.
States which sometimes post voter registration data on their web pages for some parties for which data exists, but not for all of them, are Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania. BAN recently tried to persuade Iowa to make the sort of improvement that New Mexico has just made, but Iowa Secretary of State has not agreed.
Ballot Access News
March 1, 2017 – Volume 32, Number 10
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