On March 25, the Vermont Senate passed SB 220, which allows publicly-funded candidates to announce their campaigns as early as November 1 of the year before the election. Existing law does not permit them to announce that they are running until February 15 of the election year. See this story. Thanks to the Center for Competitive Politics for the link.
New York Magazine has this interesting story by Ed Kilgore, who explains that nowadays, major party presidential conventions are planned weeks beforehand, by the candidate expected to be the presidential nominee. Important decisions about the platform, the rules, who speaks when, are normally under the control of the expected nominee and his or her campaign. But there may not be any such person during the weeks before the Republican convention.
Fairvote has this interesting analysis of what proportion of voters in Republican primaries and caucuses this year were cast for candidates who had already withdrawn from the Republican race. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link.
Ballot Access News
March 1, 2016 – Volume 31, Number 10
| This issue was printed on green paper. |
Filing has closed for candidates to run in the California June 7 primary. For the state legislature, there are fourteen districts in which only one person filed to be on the primary ballot. In each case, the incumbent is that one candidate. Under California’s top-two system, write-ins are permitted in the primary (but not the general), and the write-in candidate, if any, who places second in June in each of these districts will appear on the November ballot.
The districts are State Senate 33, and Assembly districts 1, 2, 32, 46, 49, 51, 56, 58, 59, 62, 70, 73, and 76. Declared write-in candidates need 40 valid signatures, due in May. Any registered voter can sign.
The Secretary of State’s web page is expected to have the candidate list by March 31. This information was obtained from county election web sites. Thanks to Ted Brown and Joe Dehn for the information.
