The Federal Election Commission will not decide until April 25 whether to extend the Socialist Workers Party’s exemption for campaign disclosure. If the FEC does grant a further extension, it will almost certainly be for three more years. Other parties over the years that have received exemptions from disclosure rules (not just federal exemption, but exemption from state and local requirements) are the Communist Party, the Socialist Action Party, and the Freedom Socialist Party. The basis has been that these parties have been able to show real injury to individuals who are publicly identified as supporters of those parties.

The Texas Redistricting blog has this fascinating account of how unpredictable Texas U.S. House and legislative district boundaries are, for the 2014 election. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.

The New York Times has this story about the low turnout in the Los Angeles city election of March 5. One of the two mayoral candidates in the run-off, Wendy Greuel, says she favors moving Los Angeles elections for city office to November of presidential election years. She doesn’t say whether she favors ranked-choice voting; the only alternative would seem to be a run-off in December of presidential years, or January of the following year.