On April 1, the Commission on Presidential Debates said it will soon announce a transparent online process for receiving and reviewing submissions from any organization or individual who wishes to share their ideas about the debates, including the criteria used to determine who will be invited to debate. Thanks to Dave Gillespie for the link.
Time magazine has this article about five women who ran for president in the past.
It has been over five months since the November 2014 election, when the Women’s Equality Party became ballot-qualified by polling over 50,000 votes for Andrew Cuomo for Governor. According to this story, the party still has no officers and no bylaws.
The other party that became qualified in New York in November 2014, the Stop Common Core Party, now renamed the Reform Party, does have one officer now, but it also has no bylaws, according to the story.
A documentary film about Roseanne Barr’s run for President in 2012, “Roseanne for President!” has been produced, and will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. See this article.
As noted earlier, the Secretaries of State of Kansas and Arizona have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 10th circuit, and to force the federal government to use a different type of federal voter registration form in those two states. The case is Kobach v U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 14-1164. The Election Assistance Commission response to the cert petition had been due on April 23, but the deadline has been extended to May 26. This virtually guarantees that the U.S. Supreme Court won’t decide whether to hear this case until the Court comes back from summer recess in October 2015.
Kansas and Arizona want the federal form used in their states to require applicants to attach proof of citizenship, instead of having the applicant sign under penalty of perjury that the applicant is a citizen.
