It is HB440, which has been referred to the Virginia House of Delegates Privileges & Elections Committee.
Here is a summary, with links to the actual legislation and the bill’s history.
Thanks to Robbie Pinkleton of the Libertarian Party of Virginia for letting me know.
Four Democratic Party presidential candidates will debate each other tonight in New York city at 8 p.m. eastern time. The candidates are Gabriel Cornejo, Frank Lozada, Stephen Lyons, and Jason Palmer. All of them are on the ballot in at least five upcoming Democratic presidential primaries. The debate is sponsored by Free & Equal.
It can be seen on Rumble and Crowdpac.
On January 5, Ashley Reeb, the Louisiana voter who had filed a lawsuit in December 2023 to keep former President Donald Trump off the Louisiana Republican presidential primary ballot, withdrew her lawsuit. Reeb v Ardoin, in state trial court in Baton Rouge. After a court hearing she realized she had a problem with standing. She is not a registered Republican and the Louisiana presidential primary for Republicans is a closed primary.
On January 12, an initiative petition was submitted in Alaska to repeal the Top Four election system and restore the ability of political parties to have nominees in the general elections. It needs 26,705 signatures, and backers of the initiative submitted 41,895.
The top-four system was used in November 2022 in Alaska. One of the consequences was that the Libertarian candidates for Governor and U.S. Senator did not place in the top four, so the party had no members running in the general election for either office. The party did have a member on the general election ballot for U.S. House, but that was a fluke; he had come in fifth in the primary but Tara Sweeney, one of the candidates who had placed in the top four, withdrew, and the law permitted the fifth-place finisher to replace her.
If the petition is valid, voters will vote in November 2024 on the repeal.
This story says that former Congressman Dennis Kucinich will run as an independent candidate this year for his old U.S. House seat in Ohio.
