On March 4, Redondo Beach, California, a city in Los Angeles County, became the first city in southern California to use ranked choice voting. Voters chose a Mayor and city council members using the system.
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On March 4, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Maddox, a Biden appointee, issued an opinion in Sullivan v Summers, 1:24cv-00172. The order finds that Maryland must release the list of registered voters to organizations that are investigating the integrity of the list. The order is based on the federal voter registration law.
The order also cites an earlier federal court decision that had told Maryland it could not automatically reject a request for the list of voters that had been made by someone who doesn’t live in Maryland.
On March 13, President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay three lower court orders in birthright citizenship cases. Here is the filing in Trump v State of New Jersey, 24A886.
Here is the filing in Trump v State of Washington, 24A885.
Here is the filing in Trump v Mi Casa, Inc., 24A884.
The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, will hear Hall v D.C. Board of Elections, 24-7050, on Friday, March 14. This is the case in which some D.C. voters challenge the 2022 law that lets non-citizen adult residents vote in the District of Columbia for local office. The U.S. District Court had ruled that the plaintiffs lack standing.
The judges will be Cornelia Pillard, an Obama appointee; J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee; and J. Raymond Randolph, a Bush Sr. appointee.
On March 12, the Indiana House Elections & Apportionment Committee passed SB 287. It permits school board candidates to list a party label on the ballot next to their names, although there would be no formal party nominees for that office. See this story. The bill had already passed the Senate, but in a different form.