Krist Novoselic has this commentary in the August 25 Seattle Weekly, about the recent court decision that says the Washington state “top-two” system isn’t necessarily constitutional.
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The New Mexico Attorney General says he will appeal the U.S. District Court decision New Mexico Youth Organized v Herrera to the 10th circuit. The U.S. District Court, on August 3, had ruled that New Mexico Youth Organized is not a “political committee” and therefore need not file regular reports on who donates. New Mexico Youth Organized had sent out mailings criticizing various state legislators during an election year. See this story.
This article, pubished August 25, shows how a candidate for City Council in Ocala, Florida, was told by city election officials that his petition would not be valid because he collected the signatures before opening a campaign bank account. So, he didn’t file the signatures. Later he learned that the petition would have been valid if he had only turned it in.
On August 24, a lower state court in Tulsa, Oklahoma, invalidated an initiative petition that would have converted Tulsa city elections from partisan elections to non-partisan elections. See this story. The judge ruled that the required number of signatures is closer to 19,000 than 6,000. The confusion arises from determining which election turnout figure to use to determine the number of signatures needed.
The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Corrections and Courts will hear AB 353 on August 27, according to this story. The bill would let people register to vote if they had been convicted of a felony but they are now out of prison but still on probation. The bill affects 41,429 Wisconsin adult citizens.