The Libertarian, Green and Peace & Freedom parties of California have announced their support of the recently formed ProRep Coalition, which advocates for adoption of proportional representation (PR) voting systems in California. Here is the ProRep Coalition’s website.

Here is a ProRep plan for Proportional Representation in California.

There can be no doubt that the adoption of proportional voting systems would greatly boost the electability of minor party candidates. Frankly, I don’t see that happening without PR.

Another longstanding organization that has worked for electoral reform in California is Californians for Electoral Reform. Here is CFER’s website.

Thanks to Independent Political Report for the heads up!

The Republican Party War on Democracy continues.

Here is the story from Missouri Independent.

If the Missouri House passes the bill, it will still need a majority vote from The Show Me State’s voters in November 2024 to amend the Missouri Constitution.

The story also states that the Missouri House has passed a bill making it harder to circulate citizen initiative petitions in Missouri. Petition circulators would have to be US citizens, Missouri residents for at least 30 days prior to the start of the petitioning period, and circulator pay per signature would be banned.

On February 7, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Laphonza Butler (D-Cal.) introduced S.3750, which requires states to draw U.S. House districts that are not biased for or against any political party. Here is the bill’s text.