In the last 30 days, none of the election law bills in the House of Representatives have gained any co-sponsors at all, except that the bill to provide for public funding of congressional campaigns has gained 3.

HR 1826, the public funding bill, now has 141 co-sponsors.

HR 3025, to require bipartisan commissions in each state to draw congressional district boundaries, still has 27. HR 4918, the newer bill on gerrymandering, which requires that the process of drawing district lines in each state legislature be transparent, only has one co-sponsor.

HR 3335, to require the states to let ex-felons vote in federal elections, was boosted recently because a subcommittee took testimony on this bill. But it has not gained any co-sponsors in the last month and still has 29.

HR 3957, to require the states to permit registration on election day, has not gained any co-sponsors in over a month and still has 18.

HR 2894, Congressman Rush Holt’s bill on vote-counting machines, has not gained any co-sponsors in months and still has 97.

HR 2499, the bill to hold a plebescite on the future status of Puerto Rico, in which all U.S. citizens who were born there could vote, no matter where they live now, has an impressive number of co-sponsors, 181, but it has not gained any co-sponsors in months.

The California Secretary of State has posted this unofficial list of candidates for the June 8, 2010 primary, for Congress and state office.

For the eight partisan statewide offices, each of the six ballot-qualified parties has someone running. The six ballot-qualified parties are Democratic, Republican, American Independent, Green, Libertarian, and Peace & Freedom.

For the 53 U.S. House races, Republicans are running someone in 52 districts, Democrats in 51, Libertarians in 21, American Independent in 7, Peace & Freedom in 7, and Green in 5. This is the largest number of AIP candidates for U.S. House in California since 1978, when there were eight.

All of the parties have contested primaries for Governor, except for the Libertarian Party. The Libertarian Party has a contested primary for the 59th Assembly district. Thanks to Ted Brown for the link.

On March 26, the South Carolina Democratic Party agreed to put Brian Doyle on its primary ballot as a candidate for U.S. House, 3rd district. Doyle, in the past, was convicted of a felony. On January 13, the party had said it would not let him file. Doyle had then sued the party, arguing that the U.S. Constitution does not permit the party to bar any candidate who is a member of the party and who meets the U.S. Constitutional requirements to be a member of Congress. The lawsuit had not yet reached any conclusion.

The party still hasn’t listed Doyle as a candidate on the party’s web page, but that may change.