According to this story, proponents of a top-two system for Florida will not attempt to qualify their initiative for the 2016 ballot. Instead they will try for 2018. Florida requires approximately 683,000 valid signatures, but allows four years to collect the signatures.
On November 10, a lawsuit was filed against several Alaska laws that limit contributions to candidates. Thompson v Dauphinais, 3:15cv-218. The case was assigned to U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland, a Reagan appointee.
The lead plaintiff is a Wisconsin resident who is also the brother-in-law of a Republican Alaska state legislator. The plaintiff, David Thompson, wants to contribute to the re-election campaign of his brother-in-law, but he can’t, because the law limits out-of-state donations to candidates for state and local office to $3,000. The legislator has already received that much in out-of-state contributions.
A unit of the state Republican Party is a co-plaintiff. It wants to contribute to a candidate for local office, but it can’t, because all units put together of a single party can’t contribute more than $5,000 to any candidate for state or local office, and the various units of the Republican Party, including the state party, have already contributed $5,000 to the candidate. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the news.
According to this story, no Republican presidential candidate so far has asked for Equal Time from NBC, to match the twelve minutes Donald Trump received on Saturday Night Live.
This Washington Post article says national Republican Party leaders are worried that Donald Trump, Ben Carson, or Ted Cruz might win the Republican Party presidential nomination. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
On November 10, several registered voters in Illinois who have moved to Guam filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, arguing that they should be permitted to vote in 2016 via absentee ballot. If they had moved to a foreign country, they would be permitted to continue to vote via absentee ballot in Illinois elections. But because they moved to Guam, they can’t vote. See this story. The case is Luis Segovia v Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago, n.d., 1:15cv-10196. The case is assigned to Judge Joan Gottschall. It is based on the 14th Amendment.
