Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, wants the legislature to create a straight-ticket device for Kansas general election ballots. Kansas repealed the device in 1923. See this story.

The story says that Wisconsin recently repealed the device, yet a voters’ referendum brought it back. The story is factually incorrect. It is Michigan where that happened.

The Secretary of State of Arizona publishes voter registration tally every three months. The January 1, 2015 tally will be ready sometime within the next two weeks, and will include the Green Party. The Secretary of State had determined on December 19, 2014, that the party’s petition to regain its place on the ballot was valid, but at that time it wasn’t clear that the Greens would be included in the next voter registration tally.

Persons who were registered “Green” in the past, and who didn’t re-register into another party or as independents since then, will be included. Although Arizona voter registration tallies never show data for unqualified parties, and lumps them into the “independent” column, the state acknowledges that those voters retain their old party membership. This is in contrast to Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Wyoming, which convert all members of disqualified parties into independents, whether the voter desires that or not.