This article examines the complicated legal issues, and practical issues, that are arising from the recount that is about to start in California for the Controller’s race, a statewide race.
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On July 8, True the Vote dismissed its lawsuit filed a week ago to force the state to reveal the list of Mississippi voters who voted in the Democratic primary this year. The purpose of the lawsuit was to determine if enough voters voted in the Democratic primary and the Republican run-off primary for U.S. Senate, to make a case that the run-off outcome might be invalidated.
The case was probably dismissed because the judge issued an opinion on July 7 saying the case was probably filed in the wrong district. The case had been filed in the Northern District, but the state capital, Jackson, is in the Southern District. Thanks to Rick Hasen for this news.
See this Wall Street Journal article, which speculates that independent candidates will do unusually well in 2014.
The Republican Party has tentatively chosen Cleveland, Ohio as the host for its 2016 presidential convention. See this story. This makes it very likely that the convention will start July 18. Cleveland can’t accomodate a Republican convention in June.
The story says Democrats won’t choose their city until late 2014 or early 2015.
The District of Columbia will elect an Attorney General in November 2014 for the first time. Even though the law setting up the election says the post is a partisan office, this year the election for that office will be non-partisan. No party names will be shown next to the names of candidates. This is because the District didn’t realize it would be electing this office until June, when the D.C. Appeals Court ruled the election must be held. By then the partisan primaries had already been held.
Three candidates are circulating petitions to be on the ballot for Attorney General. They need 3,000 signatures. The election law doesn’t actually specify how many signatures are needed for this type of election, but the Board decided to apply the independent candidate petition requirement to candidates for this office.