On July 20, Fox News said it has changed the time for the second-tier Republican presidential candidate forum from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on August 6. The second-tier event is the consolation prize for the candidates who don’t make the top ten and who can’t appear in the 9 p.m. August 6 event.

The change in time for the second-tier event will increase the number of people who watch. See this story. Fox also shrunk the time for the second-tier event from 90 minutes to one hour, because there are only going to be six or seven candidates in the second-tier event.

On July 20, a Canadian Appeals Court upheld a Canadian election law that bars Canadian citizens from voting if they have lived permanently outside Canada for more than five years. The lower court had struck the law down. The case will probably be appealed to the Canadian Supreme Court.

There is no such law in the United States, and some U.S. citizens have lived in foreign countries for up to fifty years or more and yet continue to vote absentee. But U.S. citizens can’t vote absentee if they move to a U.S. possession.

See this story. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.

On July 21, the North Carolina Senate passed HB 373. This is the bill that moves the 2016 North Carolina presidential primary from February to March 15. The bill has no impact on the primary for other office, which would continue to be in early May. Thanks to Josh Putnam for the news.