On July 3, the California Senate Public Safety Committee did not pass AB 2058. The vote to pass it was 3-1, but the bill needed four votes to pass. This corrects an error made by this blog. The posting on the evening of July 3, saying the bill did pass, is in error. The Committee has five Democrats and two Republicans.

AB 2058 is the bill to make it illegal for registration drive workers to be paid on a per-registration card basis. The Senate Committee on Public Safety will not meet again this year, so the bill cannot pass this year, even though the Committee did authorize a reconsideration vote at some unspecified point in the future.

Senators who voted for the bill in the Senate Public Safety Committee are these three Democrats: Loni Hancock of Berkeley, Carol Liu of La Canada, and Curren Price of Inglewood. The “no” vote was cast by Joel Anderson, one of the two Republicans. Democratic Senators who did not vote are Ron Calderon of Montebello and Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento, the Senate President.

The Georgia Green Party is working to place Kwabena Nkromo on the November ballot for the State House, 57th district. If the petition succeeds, it will be the first time the party has placed a nominee on the general election ballot, in a regularly-scheduled election, for any state or federal office in Georgia. The party has in the past been on the ballot for local partisan office.

Nkromo needs approximately 1,500 valid signature by August 6. He has been petitioning for the last two months. The 57th district is in southwest Atlanta. Assuming he gets on the ballot, he will face the winner of the Democratic primary. The two candidates in the Democratic primary, Pat Gardner and Rashad Taylor, are both incumbents. The recent redistricting placed both of them in the same district. See this story about Nkromo. The story has a small factual error; the election is on November 6, not July 31. July 31 is the date of the Democratic and Republican primaries.

On July 5, the Arizona deadline for submitting initiative petitions, proponents of the top-two open primary filed 365,486 signatures. The requirement is 259,213 signatures. The measure will have enough valid signatures if 71% or more of the signatures are valid.