According to this story, Wyoming State Senator Cale Case (R-Lander), chair of the committee that handles election law bills, believes the state’s petition procedures for initiatives and referendums should be eased somewhat.
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The June 2 Richmond Times-Dispatch has this editorial, praising last week’s decision that eliminated Virginia’s ban on out-of-state petition circulators.
On June 3, the U.S. Supreme Court released some opinions in non-election law cases, but did not release the decision in either of the two argued election law cases. One involves the Voting Rights Act and one involves the 1993 “Motor Voter” federal voter registration law. The next decision release day will be Monday, June 10.
According to this story, a draft of a Connecticut omnibus election law bill would not only make it illegal for a party to use the word “Independent” in its name; it would also ban these words from being part of a political party’s name: “United States”; “America”; “Connecticut”; the name of any city or town; or any words relating to a symbol for the government or a deity or religion. Scroll down to the last portion of the article.
In 1990, former U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker formed “A Connecticut Party” and was elected Governor under that party name. Since then, the Connecticut legislature has passed discriminatory public funding for state office that, if it had existed in 1990, would have made it impossible for Weicker to have won the 1990 election (according to Weicker himself, in his sworn testimony in a lawsuit over that law). On top of that, some legislators seem to want to retroactively fight what happened in 1990 by also depriving Weicker of his chosen party label.
This article tries to describe the confusing status of redistricting in Texas, both for U.S. House and state legislature.