On a party line vote, the Oklahoma House passed SB1027 by a 36-8 vote. The bill would make the initiative process much more difficult in Oklahoma. Here is a story from The Oklahoman.
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The amended bill is going back to the Kansas Senate. This is the fourth try to ban RCV in Kansas.
Here is the story from The Topeka Capital-Journal.
Eighteen Republican members of the U.S. House have filed this amicus in the three birthright citizenship cases pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. They are Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Chip Roy, Brandon Gill, Troy Nehls, Lance Gordon, Victoria Spartz, Mark Harris, Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Onder, Harriet Hageman, Tom McClintock, Wesley Hunt, Glenn Grothman, Rex Cline, Russell Fry, Michael Baumgartner, and Brad Knott.
The Court has asked the plaintiffs to respond to the Trump filing by April 4.
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.
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.