The Fayetteville, North Carolina Observer of January 10 has this editorial, suggesting that Fayetteville should use Instant Runoff Voting so as to eliminate its costly, low-turnout city primaries. Fayetteville has non-partisan elections. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link.
In the last 30 days, only two election law bills in the U.S. House of Representatives have gained any additional co-sponsors. HR1826, to provide non-discriminatory public funding for candidates for Congress, now has 124 co-sponsors, up six compared to a month ago. HR3957, to require the states to permit election-day registration in federal elections, now has 16 co-sponsors, up two in the last month.
Bills to hold a plebescite on the future status of Puerto Rico, to let ex-felons in all states vote in federal elections, to outlaw certain kinds of vote-counting machines in federal elections, and to require the states to use bipartisan commissions for drawing U.S. House boundaries, have not gained any co-sponsors in the last 30 days.
This Associated Press story in the Los Angeles Times says that Hawaii is expected to have a vacancy in one of its two U.S. House seats soon, but that the Elections Department only has $5,000 and the special election, at best, will cost almost $1,000,000, even if the state uses all mail ballots.
This Associated Press story in the Los Angeles Times says that Hawaii is expected to have a vacancy in one of its two U.S. House seats soon, but that the Elections Department only has $5,000 and the special election, at best, will cost almost $1,000,000, even if the state uses all mail ballots.
The Washington Post has this Associated Press story about Ralph Nader’s new lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee, over the Committee’s actions in 2004 to keep Nader off as many ballots as possible. The AP story erroneously says Nader only got three-tenths of 1% in 2004. Actually, if one rounds off to the nearest tenth of 1%, he got .4%. The more precise percentage was .37%.
