The U.S. Supreme Court has put Judd v Libertarian Party of Virginia, 13-231, on its November 26 conference. This is the case in which the lower courts struck down Virginia’s ban on out-of-state petitioners. The state is trying to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to hear this case and reverse the lower courts.
WGBH, one of the most prominent public broadcast stations in the U.S., has this story about Evan Falchuk and his United Independent Party. Falchuk explains why he is trying to found a new party for Massachusetts, and is not just an independent candidate.
Governing Magazine has this fairly lengthy article on Ranked-Choice Voting. Governing Magazine is a monthly print publication that is also on-line, and is intended for state and local government public officials. It is 25 years old. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
On November 4, a Texas 2014 gubernatorial poll was released by the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune. The pollsters presumed that Greg Abbott would be the Republican nominee, Wendy Davis the Democratic nominee, and Kathie Glass the Libertarian nominee. The results: Abbott 40%, Davis 35%, Glass 5%, undecided 20%. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
In 2010, Glass was the Libertarian nominee and she polled 2.1%.
In the United States, no elected officials on a law-making body (except for the U.S. Senate) have as many constituents as Los Angeles County Supervisors. Each of the five supervisors has approximately two million constituents. Dan Walters, politics and government columnist for the Sacramento Bee has this column, arguing that the county should have a larger legislative body. All county and city elections in California are non-partisan. California is the only state with a constitutional provision requiring that all local government elections be non-partisan; most states let each jurisdiction decide for itself whether to have partisan or non-partisan elections.
