Pennsylvania State Senator Mike Folmer will hold a Voters’ Choice Act town hall meeting on Tuesday, May 28. The purpose of the meeting is to gain publicity and spread information about his SB 195, which would ease ballot access in Pennsylvania. The meeting is at 6 p.m. in room 312 of the Neidig Garber Science Center, on the campus of Lebanon Valley College, 101 N. College Ave., Annville. Annville is in Lebanon County, not too far from Lancaster and Harrisburg.
On May 23, the California Green, Libertarian, and Peace & Freedom Parties sent this one-page letter to each California legislator. It outlines the election law problems faced by these parties. A California legislator has tentatively agreed to introduce a bill to relieve at least some of these problems. Although it is too late to introduce new bills, existing election law bills can be amended.
On May 23, California SB 213 passed the Senate Appropriations Committee. It repeals all residency requirements for petitioners. Now it goes to the Senate floor.
Medea Benjamin, a Green Party activist, and the party’s U.S. Senate nominee in California in 2000, is the subject of many news stories on May 23. She was in the audience at President Obama’s speech to the National Defense University, and she interrupted the President with questions about why he doesn’t close Guantanamo Prison and related matters. See this story, one of many. Also this story talks about how she gained admittance to the room. Here is a you tube of what Benjamin said.
In 2000 she polled 326,828 votes for U.S. Senate in California, 3.08%, placing third in a race with seven candidates on the ballot.
On May 23, Emerson College Polling released the results of a poll for the U.S. Senate race being held in Massachusetts next June. Here are the questions, which were transmitted to respondents over the telephone, using a recording. Question 5 only gives respondents the opportunity to express support for the Republican, or the Democrat, or to say they are undecided. But there are three candidates on the ballot. The third candidate is Richard Heos of Twelve Visions Party.
Also, question 7 asks respondents how they are registered, but it does not permit them to respond that they are registered members of a party other than the Democratic or Republican Parties. Massachusetts has over 30,000 voters enrolled in parties other than the two major parties. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the news about the poll.
