The publication of the International Socialist Organization, called Socialist Worker (not to be confused with the Socialist Workers Party) describes how the ISO helped Jill Stein get the needed signatures to get on the Vermont ballot.
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On August 3, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee passed SB 1288. The bill allows all California cities and counties, not just charter cities and counties, to use instant-runoff for their own elections if they wish. The bill now goes to the Assembly floor.
Seven weeks ago, on June 29, Better for America asked for permission to file an amicus curiae brief in Level the Playing Field v FEC, U.S. District Court, D.C., 1:15cv-1397.
Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, still hasn’t ruled on whether the amicus can be filed. By contrast, when Sam Husseini asked to file an amicus in this case, his request was denied exactly two weeks after he applied. “Better for America” is the group that hoped to recruit an independent conservative presidential candidate.
August 2 is the Wisconsin deadline for petitions for independent presidential petitions, and the presidential petitions of unqualified parties. Only two such petitions were submitted: Rocky De La Fuente, and Monica Moorehead (presidential nominee of the Workers World Party).
The qualified parties in Wisconsin are Constitution, Democratic, Green, Libertarian, and Republican.
According to this story, one of the Republican candidates for presidential elector in Georgia says if he is elected to the electoral college, he probably won’t vote for Donald Trump. The story is somewhat naive to say that Georgia is one of 21 states that does not require presidential electors to vote for the nominee of the party that nominated them. Some of the other 29 states say that electors must vote for the presidential candidate they are pledged to, but those laws have no teeth. The only laws with binding effect are in North Carolina and Montana. Those states say a presidential elector who violates his or her pledge is deemed to have resigned, and to be replaced by the other electors from that state. But even those laws have no binding effect, if all the electors from such a state “disobey”. If they all violate their pledge, there would be no one to replace them.