Last week, Nonprofit Vote released a 26-page report on voter turnout in the November 2014 election.  Here is a link to the report.  Nonprofit Vote does reports like this after each congressional and presidential election.

Page seven shows the turnout in each state as a ranking.  The states are in order of how high turnout was, and that page shows the rank of each state in November 2014 and also November 2010.

The two states that dropped the most in rankings between 2010 and 2014 were Delaware and California.  Delaware was 12th best in 2010, but 37th in 2014.  California was 20th best in 2010, but 43rd in 2014.

According to this article, the organization called Openly Secular (www.openlysecular.org) hopes to persuade eight states to remove provisions from their State Constitutions that forbid non-believers from holding state office.  All the states are southern states, except for Maryland.  The laws are not enforced.  Thanks to Howard Bashman for the link.

On March 18, the Arkansas Senate State Agencies & Governmental Affairs Committee passed SB 803 unanimously.  Current Arkansas law says no one can run for two offices simultaneously in a primary.  The bill would provide that someone can run for either President or Vice-President, and also run for Congress.  The sponsor says he wants U.S. Senator Tom Cotton to have the freedom to run for President and for re-election to the Senate in 2020.  Senator Cotton, who is a freshman U.S. Senator, has never said he intends to run for President in 2020.