According to this news story, Oklahoma election officials say they will start printing some ballots on Tuesday, September 4, even though the Democratic National Convention will not have chosen the Democratic ticket until September 6.
New Hampshire, Delaware, and Rhode Island won’t hold their congressional primaries until September 11.
On August 29, Rocky Anderson, Justice Party presidential nominee, was interviewed by Amy Goodman on “Democracy Now.” The interview lasts about four minutes. Anderson put special emphasis on the Pennsylvania system.
Two separate opinions this week have resulted in defeats for Texas election laws. On August 28, one 3-judge U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., invalidated the state’s congressional and legislative district boundaries. And on August 30, another 3-judge U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., invalidated the Texas law on government photo-ID at the polls.
The redistricting decision doesn’t affect the districts in use this year. The districts in use this year were not drawn by the legislature, but by a 3-judge U.S. District Court in Texas. The redistricting decision is State of Texas v U.S.A., 11-cv-1303. ElectionLawBlog has commentary and a link to the opinion here.
The decision on photo government-ID for voters at the polls is State of Texas v Holder, 12-cv-128. Read more about it, and see a link to the decision, here at ElectionLawBlog. Both decisions are based on the Voting Rights Act.
According to the web page of the Arizona Americans Elect Party, at least 360 voters who are registered members of that party voted in the August 28 primary. The party appears to have nominated two candidates for Congress.
According to this analysis, published in Arizona’s largest daily newspaper, the August 28 Arizona primary results indicate the 2013 session of the Arizona legislature will be more centrist, more closely balanced between the two major parties, and more business-friendly.
This conclusion has some consequences for the ongoing battle over whether Arizona should convert its elections to top-two open primaries. Business has been heavily backing the initiative because it has been so unhappy with the “Tea Party” influence in the 2011-2012 session of the legislature.
