“Kim Reynolds promises to review backlog of felon voting rights applications by the Iowa caucuses”
The latest on the restoration of voting rights in Iowa.
Category Archives: primaries
“Paperwork problem blocks Andrew Yang from Ohio’s Democratic presidential primary ballot, campaign to launch write-in effort”
Ballot access is not for the faint of heart.
“What it means to participate in the Iowa caucuses”
Lyz Lenz offers a wry view in The Gazette.
But past the humor, her overall point is spot-on: few Americans understand how the Iowa caucuses actually work — and it looks a lot more like a town meeting than a… Continue reading
“New law makes voters’ primary party choice public”
The Pioneer Press reviews an interesting new facet of Minnesota’s law. As in many states, voters have to declare a party preference before voting in a primary, but apparently, the voters’ choice of party is “secret, just like your actual… Continue reading
The presidential primary field narrows … but it’s also broader than you may realize
There’s been quite a bit of coverage on Julián Castro’s recent
exit from the presidential race.
On a comparatively slow (election) news day, your reminder that the FEC notes we’ve got plenty of options left: as of today, they list… Continue reading
Primary voting begins today …
… in the Oscars race.
It’s an alternative
voting system for nominations (and in a few categories, for the final
result):
In the nominations voting, the
marking and tabulation of all ballots shall be according to the preferential,
weighted average,… Continue reading
“Voting Rights Restoration Backlog Leaves Iowans with Felony Convictions Waiting”
Iowa Public Radio previews an issue with increased urgency given the February 3 primaries.
Unaffiliated voters and the California primaries
Jessica
Levinson forecasts coming confusion in California, a heavily
absentee-voting state where voters have now been trained on a “top two” state primary
(in which voters can vote on all candidates, no matter their party registration). But
the top… Continue reading
“Dixville Notch, N.H., may have to give up tradition of midnight voting”
One piece of sad news for presidential primary human-interest stories: Dixville Notch, NH, allows voting at the stroke of midnight, and had the first voters in the country’s first primary for years. But they’re essentially out of people – if… Continue reading
“Constitutional Law and the Presidential Nomination Process”
Richard Briffault has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, The Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times (Eugene D. Mazo and Michael R. Dimino, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2020)). Here is the abstract:
The Constitution says nothing about the presidential… Continue reading
“Why Almost Nobody Will Defend the Iowa Caucuses”
NYT:
In Iowa, fretting about the caucuses is a quadrennial tradition among Democratic and Republican officials alike. But at a time when leading Democrats have made the fight for ballot access, voting rights and diverse representation core principles, their marquee… Continue reading
Eleventh Circuit Rejects Claims from Sanders’ Supporters of DNC Bias in 2016
“Hawaii and Kansas to Use Ranked Choice Voting Ballots in 2020 Primaries”
“Was the Democratic Nomination Rigged? A Reexamination of the Clinton-Sanders Presidential Race”
Tony Gaughan has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy). Here is the abstract:
This article examines one of the lingering controversies of the 2016 presidential race: whether the Democratic Party’s leaders… Continue reading