August 15, 2026
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From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
On October 8, two Socialist Party candidates for the California legislature filed a federal lawsuit against the California law that forces them to have “party preference: none” on the ballot, if they run for Congress or partisan state office.…
From a Free and Equal Elections Foundation email blast:
The second annual Electoral Reform Symposium will take place at Infinity Park in Glendale, CO on Saturday, November 14th, 2015 from 9AM-4PM MT and will be broadcast worldwide via www.freeandequal.org…
From Richard Winger at Independent Voter Network, reprinted here with permission from the author:
California’s existing election system for Congress and state office could be improved with the following ideas.…
A Florida group that supports top-two says it has rewritten its proposed initiative, and will start to collect signatures soon. The revised measure holds the actual election for state and county office in August, and only if no one gets 50% will there be a runoff in November.…
On July 28, the Peace & Freedom Party, the Libertarian Party of California, and the Green Party of Alameda County will ask the U.S.…
David G. Briceno has this op-ed in The Union of Grass Valley, California. He advocates the repeal of the California top-two system.…
Kathryn Bullington recently conducted this interview with 2012 Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein at the Independent Voter Network (IVN). Stein is seeking the party’s nomination again in 2016.…
On April 29, the California Supreme Court refused to hear Rubin v Padilla, the case filed by three of California’s minor parties that charges the top-two system injures voting rights in the general election.…
A ballot initiative to install a “top-two” primary has begun in Florida, as circulators are now petitioning on the initiative’s behalf.
According to a recent article in the Broward-Palm Beach New Times, the petition was filed by All Voters Vote Inc.,…
