Jim Bennett, a former Secretary of State of Alabama, has this column in the Birmingham News. The last few paragraphs seem to endorse Instant Runoff Voting, at least in primaries, so that primary run-offs can be abolished. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
Bebe Heiskell, County Commissioner for Walker County, Georgia, will leave the Republican Party and run for re-election as an independent this year. She has been the sole commissioner for Walker County starting in 2000. See this story.
Walker County is in northwest Georgia and has a population of 68,756. The main town is LaFayette.
Morris Fiorina, a political science professor at Stanford, says in this interview that a major party might get a presidential nominee who is better at governing, if it didn’t use presidential primaries and caucuses across the nation to choose its presidential nominees. Of course, the system he seems to prefer was in place in the United States before 1972.
Politico has this interactive map of the U.S. Click on any state to see the 2016 presidential primary or caucus results, for those states that have already voted.
On March 9, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court was set to hear a challenge to John Kasich’s Pennsylvania presidential primary petition. He needed 2,000 signatures and submitted 2,184. However, the challenge was postponed while a higher court will consider whether the challenge was filed on time. It was filed at 5:13 p.m. on the last day for challenges. See this story. The law does not specify an hour for the deadline challenge to be filed; it only specifies a date.
The case is In re: Nomination Petition of Kasich, Commonwealth Court, 147 MD 2016.
