New Hampshire Representative Joseph Sweeney (R-Salem) has introduced HB 115, to move the non-presidential primary from September to the second Tuesday in June. The bill has several co-sponsors. Sweeney is the state Republican Party’s Executive Director.

Sweeney has also introduced HB 333, to move the primary to March. That bill also has several co-sponsors.

New Hampshire Senator Regina Birdsell (R-Hampstead) has introduced SB 133, to move the primary to the second Tuesday in May. The bill has several co-sponsors.

New York State Senator James Skoufis (D-Newburgh) has introduced SB 438, which would provide that if a presidential elector “disobeys”, he or she is deemed to have resigned, and is replaced on the spot. The bill is not worded very clearly, because it talks about the presidential nominee of the party, but doesn’t specify whether it is the national party nominee or the state party nominee. Once in a while a rift in a political party results in a state party having a presidential nominee different than the national convention nominee.

The identical bill in the Assembly, AB 928, is introduced by Assemblymember Jonathan Jacobson (D-Newburgh).

On January 26, Adam Schiff announced for the U.S. Senate in 2024 in California. He is a member of the U.S. House. Another Democratic member of the U.S. House, Katie Porter, had already announced. And it is expected that two other Democratic members of the House, Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna, will announce.

This opens the possibility that in the 2024 top-two primary, if there are two fairly evenly-matched Republicans running for U.S. Senate, the two Republicans might conceivably place first and second, leaving Democrats with no candidate for U.S. Senate in November. California does not permit write-ins in the general election for congressional elections. Leaving the voters will no choice but to elect a Republican to the Senate seat would doom the top-two system in California.