The New Jersey Elections Department has certified Chuck Baldwin for the November ballot, despite the glitch that the petitions were submitted three days late. The state had erroneously issued petition blanks that clearly said they are due on August 11. The state had been aware of the error, but thought it had retrieved all the “bad” forms before issuing any to any campaign. Since the state made the error, it accepted the late filing.
Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, but he continued to teach law. In 2002 (and probably other years) he taught a course on election law. ElectionLawBlog has posted this syllabus from Professor Obama’s election law class.
The Massachusetts legislature ended its session in the middle of the night (July 31-August 1), without passing either high-profile election law bill. H.4952 was the National Popular Vote Plan bill, and S.2807 would have instituted election-day voter registration.
The National Popular Vote Plan bill had passed both houses, but the accompanying vote to send the bill to the governor never took place. Election-day registration had passed the Senate on July 30, but didn’t get a vote in the House. Thanks to Jack Dean for this news. Here is more detail about the chaotic last few hours of the session.
A Peace and Freedom Party member expects to attend to state convention in Sacramento August 2-3 (with preliminary social activities with the presidential candidates on the evening of August 1), and she expects to blog at this web site. Thanks to C.T. Weber for this news.
A Peace and Freedom Party member expects to attend to state convention in Sacramento August 2-3 (with preliminary social activities with the presidential candidates on the evening of August 1), and she expects to blog at this web site. Thanks to C.T. Weber for this news.
