On February 6, the Wyoming Senate passed SF 98, which says that in school board races, the party affiliation of each candidate should be listed. On February 12, the Wyoming House Corporations Committee also passed it.

There would be no party nominees in school board races, so the labels don’t mean that the party approves of any particular candidate.

Wyoming doesn’t permit voters to register into non-qualified parties. The voter registration form doesn’t have a blank line for party choice; it just has checkboxes for the qualified parties, plus a box to register as independent.

On Friday evening, February 14, newly sworn-in Health & Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., rescinded layoff notices for employees of the Indian Health Services. See this story.

New York Assemblymember Robert Carroll (D-Brooklyn) has introduced A90. It establishes a top-two system for all partisan office except president. Oddly, it provides for ranked choice voting in the primary, but not the general. Of course, with only two candidates on the general election ballot, there is no need for RCV in the general election.

One wonders, if parties are no longer allowed to have nominees, and if the mechanism for using ranked choice voting is in place, what is the purpose of the primary? Why not just have a general election with ranked choice voting?

Although top-two bills have been introduced in many states in the last decade, this is the first bill in any state to combine top-two with ranked choice voting.