The California Green Party has created a leaflet that asks voters to defeat Proposition 14. See it here. Proposition is on the ballot in the June 8, 2010 election. It would provide that all candidates in congressional and state elections would run on a single primary ballot in June. Afterwards, the only two candidates permitted to run would be the two individuals who got the most votes in June.
The Coalition for Free and Open Elections has posted the minutes of its annual meeting at www.cofoe.org. That annual meeting was on February 28, 2010, in New York city.
The Coalition for Free and Open Elections has existed since 1985. It is a loose coalition of most of the nation’s nationally-organized minor parties, as well as some other organizations which support the organization’s goal of a better legal environment for minor parties and independent candidates. Thanks to COFOE webmaster Kevin Murphy for this news.
The print edition of the New York Times for March 24 has this Thomas L. Friedman column, recommending that states pass Instant Runoff Voting, and also recommending that states create nonpartisan commissions to draw congressional and legislative district boundaries.
Friedman cites the work of Larry Diamond, author of “The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World”, and coordinator of the democracy program of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.” Diamond is a Stanford senior fellow.
Friedman says that if states used IRV, centrist moderates would have a better chance of being elected as independent or minor party candidates. Thanks to Carter Momberger for the link.
The March 23 issue of the Hartford Courant has this article about the legislature’s plans for changing the state’s public funding law. Although the Joint Government Administration and Elections Committee passed bills six days ago that remove the discriminatory parts of the law, those bills haven’t yet received a vote on the floor of either house. Thanks to Eric Brown’s Political Activity Law for the link.
The March 23 issue of the Hartford Courant has this article about the legislature’s plans for changing the state’s public funding law. Although the Joint Government Administration and Elections Committee passed bills six days ago that remove the discriminatory parts of the law, those bills haven’t yet received a vote on the floor of either house. Thanks to Eric Brown’s Political Activity Law for the link.
