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A staff report of the APOC found that the Alaska anti-RCV group Preserve Democracy is not simply an educational organization but is working in support of a ballot initiative that would repeal RCV in Alaska.
The APOC commissioners will now decide if that is the case. If they vote in agreement with the staff report, Preserve Democracy will have to disclose funding sources and expenditures, which it has not yet done.
APOC staff is also investigating a claim from RCV advocates that Preserve Democracy set up a church in order to allow tax-deductible donations from its contributors.
Here is a story on this matter. Thanks to FairVote for the tip.
On Wednesday, August 30, the Pennsylvania Senate State Government Committee will hear SB 224, which would move the 2024 primary for all office from late April to March 19. If the bill passes, it will have no effect on the petition deadline for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties.
If the bill passes, Democratic and Republican candidates would need to be circulating primary petitions to get on the ballot in the days before Christmas. But if the bill doesn’t pass, the 2024 primary interferes with Passover. It doesn’t seem to occur to Pennsylvania legislators that they are free to abolish primary petitions. A majority of states do not require primary petitions; instead, they depend on filing fees to keep primary ballots from being too crowded.
The Eleventh Circuit will hear Graham v Georgia Attorney General, 22-13396, during the week of December 11. This is the case in which the Georgia Libertarian Party challenges the campaign finance law. For gubernatorial candidates, the law allows individuals to give a higher amount of contributions to Republican and Democratic nominees, than the nominees of other parties. The lower court had said the plaintiffs don’t have standing.
On August 28, a Connecticut state trial court held oral arguments in Shafiq Abdussabur v Evans. The issue is whether the Plaintiff should be added to the Democratic primary ballot as a candidate for Mayor. The primary is next month. The candidate had enough valid signatures but the New Haven election board did not realize he had enough, so they left him off the ballot. The city argues that it is too late to add him to the ballot, even though the regular ballots have not been printed yet, although some absentee ballots have been printed. See this story.