On March 17, the Colorado House passed HB 1299, the National Popular Vote Plan bill. The vote was 34-29.
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On March 13 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to rehear the matter of whether the Green Party’s 2006 U.S. Senate nominee must pay approximately $80,000 to the people who challenged his petition. Apparently the State Supreme Court is willing to rethink the matter because of last year’s revelations that the people who challenged both Nader in 2004 and the Green Party in 2006 illegally used state employees and state resources to prepare their petition challenges. Thanks to Larry Otter for this news. The case is still called In re: Nomination Papers of Rogers, No. 6 MAP 2009.
The bill in Washington state to authorize letting overseas absentee voters use the internet to vote will not pass this year. Although it had cleared the policy committee in the House, it was never brought up for a vote in the full House. Bills in Washington state that didn’t pass their house of origin by March 12 are now dead. The bill was HB 1624.
On March 12, the Washington State Senate passed SB 5599, the National Popular Vote Plan bill for presidential elections. The vote was 28-21.
On March 16, a new lawsuit was filed in Solano County, California, state court, over the identity of the proper officers of the American Independent Party of California. The case is King v Robinson, fcs033119. This is yet another round over the disputed state conventions of the AIP in 2008. Previous lawsuits filed by the faction of the party that is allied with the national Constitution Party never reached a resolution on the merits, because of procedural flaws in the filings.