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%.
On January 8, Real Clear Politics published this essay by David Paul Kuhn, which tries to draw conclusions about public attitudes on how big or small government should be. The essay relies on polling data. Pollsters find it tough to measure opinion about ideological issues, so there isn’t as much poll data on ideology as there is on more concrete questions. Thanks to Tim Brace for the link.
Mississippi ballots have always contained write-in space, but the state has a unique law that says write-ins can not be counted unless one of the candidates whose name is printed on the ballot has died after the ballots were printed, but before election day.
Representative John Mayo (D-Clarksdale) has introduced HB 56, which says that write-ins are generally permitted, without regard to whether any ballot-listed candidate has died. The bill covers write-ins in both primary and general elections.
