The American Solidarity Party will hold an in-person national convention in Plano, Texas, June 30-July 2. Five individuals are seeking the party’s presidential nomination: Jacqueline Abernathy, Erskine Levi Jr., Mark Powell, Peter Sonski, and Mike Vick. They will have been chosen in an on-line party-administered presidential primary just prior to the convention, and the winners will address the convention.

In 2020 the party polled 39,230 votes for its presidential nominee, Brian Carroll. In 2016, its first presidential race, it polled 6,474 for Michael Maturen.

On March 23, the North Dakota House amended SCR 4013 and passed it. It had already passed the Senate, but it must return to the Senate because the House changed it. The bill raises the number of signatures for a constitutional amendment from 4% of the population, to 5%. It says constitutional amendments must appear both on the primary ballot and the general election ballot, and they must pass in both elections in order to take effect. It says only North Dakota residents may circulate any type of initiative petition, statutory or constitutional.

But it deleted some harsh features from the Senate version, such as a requirement that all circulators must have lived in the state for four months before the petition starts to circulate, and that constitutional amendments need 67% of the vote in order to pass.

Another North Dakota bill involving initiatives, HCR 3031, was defeated in the House on March 14 by a vote of 29-63. It would have allowed electronic signatures on initiative petitions but would have increased the number of signatures needed for all types of initiative.

On March 10, the Washington state Senate Rules Committee killed SB 5209, the bill to make voting mandatory.