On Tuesday, February 16, a North Carolina Superior Court in Raleigh hears the lawsuit that argues that a 2015 bill, setting up procedures for judicial retention elections for State Supreme Court Justices, violates the State Constitution. The Constitution requires actual elections for judicial posts. See this story.
This Politico story says most of the Republican presidential candidates are preparing for a national convention in July that will require more than one vote to choose a presidential nominee. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
The Tennessee Senate State & Local Government Committee will hear SB 2528 on Tuesday, February 16. This is the National Popular Vote Plan bill. The meeting starts at 10:30 a.m., but of course the committee has other bills as well.
Capitol Weekly, a California publication, has this article about California’s top-two system. Paul Mitchell, the author, is an officer of Political Data Inc. He has calculated the percentage of voters who cast a blank ballot, in November elections for Congress and partisan state office, in races with two candidates from the same party. He finds that sometimes up to 50% of the “orphaned voters” choose to leave their ballot blank rather than vote for a candidate from a party they don’t like.
Jonathan Chait has this article in New York magazine. He says it is conceivable that Michael Bloomberg could be elected President this year as an independent.
