Here is a link to the presidential primary election returns on the Kentucky Secretary of State’s web page. As of 7:30 pm eastern time, May 20, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul are virtually tied for 2nd in the Republican primary.
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Ohio holds a special election for Attorney General in November 2008. Independent candidates must file 750 valid signatures by May 27 (Tuesday). Any resident of Ohio who is a U.S. citizen age 18 or over may qualify. Candidates need not be attorneys.
The Republican and Democratic Parties will nominate for this office by party meeting. There is no primary for them, for this office, since this year’s primary was already held, back in March 2008. There is no procedure for a new or previously unqualified party to name a nominee (other than using the independent petition, which doesn’t permit a partisan label on the ballot).
The ballot-qualified Minnesota Indepencence Party holds a primary in September. Filing is in July. Press reports from Minnesota indicate that both Jesse Ventura and Dean Barkley are considering running for U.S. Senate. Each defers to the other and says, “I won’t run unless (the other) doesn’t want to run.” The party must poll at least 5% for the U.S. Senate race this year, in order to remain on the ballot.
Dean Barkley was appointed to fill a two-month vacancy in the U.S. Senate by Governor Ventura, in 2002, after incumbent Senator Paul Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash. Both Ventura and Barkley have high name recognition in Minnesota.
On May 19, the New Hampshire Supreme Court said a bill letting underage citizens vote in primaries, if those voters were going to be age 18 by the time of the general election, would violate the State Constitution. New Hampshire is one of the few states in which the State Supreme Court is entitled to decide whether a bill is constitutional or not, before it has become law. Here is the opinion. The case is called Opinion of the Justices, Voting Age in Primaries, 2008-292. The bill, SB 436, had already passed in the Senate, and the House had requested the ruling.
The State Constitution says, “All elections are to be free, and every inhabitant of the state 18 years of age and upwards shall have an equal right to vote in any election.”
On May 19, the New Hampshire Supreme Court said a bill letting underage citizens vote in primaries, if those voters were going to be age 18 by the time of the general election, would violate the State Constitution. New Hampshire is one of the few states in which the State Supreme Court is entitled to decide whether a bill is constitutional or not, before it has become law. Here is the opinion. The case is called Opinion of the Justices, Voting Age in Primaries, 2008-292. The bill, SB 436, had already passed in the Senate, and the House had requested the ruling.
The State Constitution says, “All elections are to be free, and every inhabitant of the state 18 years of age and upwards shall have an equal right to vote in any election.”