On January 5, the New York City Board of Elections chose a new vote-counting system to replace the city’s old Shoup mechanical voting machines. From now on, New York city voters will fill out ballots by blackening an oval next to the name of the candidate voted for. The city chose machines manufactured by Election Systems and Software. See this story.
Jana Kemp, a former state Republican legislator in Idaho, has just launched her independent candidacy for Governor. She needed 1,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot, and has already completed the petition. See this story about her campaign.
The New York Times of January 5 has this fairly lengthy article about the Working Families Party, and its clout. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link.
The PAC for the California Association of Health Underwriters (CAHU-PAC) recently contributed $100,000 toward the campaign to pass the “top-two open primary” ballot measure on the June 2010 California ballot. The PAC’s blog says, “The Legislature has placed a ballot measure on the June 2010 ballot that will change the law to provide that all primary elections for state legislative office will be NON-PARTISAN (caps in original). This change is terribly important to CAHU because it will result in the election of more moderate anti-single payer Legislators.” See the CAHU blog here (go back to the November 16, 2009 CAHU-PAC blog post for more).
The campaign for the “top-two open primary” ballot measure has already sent a 25 inch by 11 inch brochure to many registered independent voters in California, advocating the measure. The brochure includes an application for a voter to request a mail ballot.
In 2004, when the “top-two open primary” was also on the California ballot, the biggest contributor to the campaign for it was Countrywide Home Lending, which contributed $250,000.
The PAC for the California Association of Health Underwriters (CAHU-PAC) recently contributed $100,000 toward the campaign to pass the “top-two open primary” ballot measure on the June 2010 California ballot. The PAC’s blog says, “The Legislature has placed a ballot measure on the June 2010 ballot that will change the law to provide that all primary elections for state legislative office will be NON-PARTISAN (caps in original). This change is terribly important to CAHU because it will result in the election of more moderate anti-single payer Legislators.” See the CAHU blog here (go back to the November 16, 2009 CAHU-PAC blog post for more).
The campaign for the “top-two open primary” ballot measure has already sent a 25 inch by 11 inch brochure to many registered independent voters in California, advocating the measure. The brochure includes an application for a voter to request a mail ballot.
In 2004, when the “top-two open primary” was also on the California ballot, the biggest contributor to the campaign for it was Countrywide Home Lending, which contributed $250,000.
