On January 31, the Michigan House passed SB 13, the bill to move the presidential primary from March to February. The bill now goes to the Governor, who is expected to sign it. Thanks to FrontloadingHQ for this news.
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On January 25, six Vermont State Senators introduced SB 32, which requires that presidential primaries use ranked choice voting. Thanks to William Kolb for this news. Here is the text of the bill.
On January 30, the government of Delaware filed papers in the lawsuit Adams v Carney, acknowledging that its law requiring all judicial appointees to most types of state court is unconstitutional, to the extent it requires them to be registered Democrats or Republicans. Here is the consent decree filed in Adams v Carney, 1:20cv-1680. Now the case doesn’t need a trial. Thanks to Joe Burns for this news.
FrontloadingHQ has this list of 2023 legislative bills concerning ranked choice voting, as well as a summary of where RCV has been used in recent past presidential caucuses and party-run presidential primaries.
Recently, the Oregon group that backs STAR Voting announced it is about to start circulating its statewide initiative. STAR voting is somewhat similar to Ranked Choice Voting. But STAR voting lets voters rank each candidate with between zero and five “stars”. See the STAR website for more information.