The Nebraska Senate Government, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee will hear LB 349 on Thursday, February 21. This is the Secretary of State’s omnibus election law bill. Among many other provisions, it eliminates the law that says primary voters can’t sign an independent presidential candidate petition.
New York city elects its Mayor in November 2013. See this press release, which says that Kristin Davis will seek the Libertarian Party nomination for Mayor. She also sought the Libertarian gubernatorial nomination in 2010, but the party chose Warren Redlich instead. So, Davis then became the gubernatorial candidate of the Anti-Prohibition Party. At the November 2010 general election, Redlich polled 48,386 votes, and Davis received 20,429 votes.
In November 2006, the Libertarian Party had only polled 14,736 votes for Governor of New York.
This interesting New England Cable News (NECN) story about the Massachusetts U.S. Senate Republican primary focuses on Dan Winslow. The interviewer asks Winslow if certain Republican leaders in Massachusetts may be withholding support for Winslow in retaliation for Winslow’s having been the attorney for the last few years for Americans Elect. The story seems to suggest that Mitt Romney is backing another Republican in the upcoming special primary.
California Assemblymember Kevin Mullin (D-South San Francisco) has introduced ACA 7, a proposed amendment to the California Constitution. It would let 17-year-olds vote in primaries, if they will have attained age 18 by the time of the general election.
On February 14, the Peace & Freedom, Libertarian and Green Parties filed this amended complaint in Superior Court in Alameda County, California, in Rubin v Bowen. This is the case in which the parties argue that the top-two system, as it works in the real world, unconstitutionally injures voters who desire to vote for minor party and independent candidates. The judge in this case had asked that the plaintiffs file an amended complaint.
A complaint does not set forth precedents or evidence that a law is unconstitutional. A complaint merely sets forth the problem that the plaintiffs have with the existing law. Evidence, and precedents, will be mentioned in future documents.
