On March 30, the New Hampshire Senate unanimously passed CACR9, which says that New Hampshire’s presidential primary will always be the first presidential primary in the nation. Assuming this passes the House, as a proposed constitutional amendment, it will be on the ballot for voters to approve in November 2024.
Illinois Senate Bill 2306 would move the petition deadline for primary candidates from December of the year before the election, to November of the year before the election. The Illinois primary for all office is in March of election years. The bill is dead because it failed to move out of committee by March 31.
On March 31, the No Labels organization gave its “seal of approval” to Adam Frisch, who is a Democrat running for Congress next year in Colorado’s Third District. See this story.
Florida election law says an elected public official who files to run for an office, other than the one the officer already holds, must resign from his or her elected position. There is speculation that the legislature may amend this law, so that Governor Ron DeSantis can file for presidential primaries in 2024 without resigning the Governorship. See this story.
On March 30, the North Dakota legislature passed HB 1273. It bans approval voting and ranked choice voting. Fargo, the largest city in North Dakota, has been using Approval Voting for its own city elections for some time, but the bill will force the city to stop using it. See this story. It is possible the city will sue the state.
