According to this story, the Florida trial state court hearing the case on Florida’s U.S. House district boundaries says he will issue a new plan next week. However, at that point the new plan won’t be final; the State Supreme Court might then change it.
Professor Steven J. Brams has this letter to the editor in the September 28, 2015 New York Times. It advocates that presidential primaries should use approval voting.
The San Jose Mercury-News has this article about California’s top-two primary, although the article covers additional topics. The article says the top-two system in California has helped well-funded business interests in the legislature.
Ballot Access News
September 1, 2015 – Volume 31, Number 4
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Table of Contents
CNN is sponsoring the first Democratic presidential debate. It will be held in Las Vegas on October 13, Tuesday evening. Here are the rules on who may participate. They include being at least 1% in polls. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
Given that both the Republican and Democratic presidential debates sponsored by CNN have a 1% poll requirement, the Commission on Presidential Debates’ poll requirement of 15% seems more and more to be deviant and far too harsh.
