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.
Reply
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.
This story by National Public Radio in Peoria seems to be the first general news media mention of the February 12 victory in the Illinois Libertarian Party’s ballot access case.
One of the thirteen candidates whose name is on the Texas Republican presidential primary ballot is Elizabeth Gray. She paid $5,000 to be on that ballot, yet she has not entered any other state’s presidential primary, has no web page, has not filed with the Federal Election Commission, and can’t even be found at the address she listed. See this story, written by Rick Adams, a Texas blogger. The Texas primary is March 1. Thanks to Jim Riley for the link.