An initiative to create a top-two system for Florida has started to circulate. Progressive Campaigns is the paid petitioning company that is doing the drive.…
Posts published in “Proposition 14”
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
On April 9, the Peace & Freedom Party of California, the Libertarian Party of California, and the Green Party of Alameda County filed this reply brief in Rubin v Padilla, the case pending in the State Supreme Court on whether the California top-two system injures voting rights.…
Political Science Professor Michael McDonald has a webpage that posts turnout data for each state. McDonald determines the number of ballots cast in each state, and divides that by the voting-eligible population.…
From Thomas L. Knapp at Free Press Publications:
California’s elections system is making news again (“Top-two primary system survives challenge,” by Thomas Elias, Salinas Californian, February 17).…
Martin Wisckol, politics reporter for the Orange County (California) Register, has this column about recent political science research on California’s top-two system.
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Ted Brown, long-time Libertarian activist, had a letter posted in the Los Angeles Times today. Mr. Brown was chairman of the Libertarian Party of CA in the eighties, and has held several other leadership postions in California since then.…
Feb 12, 2015
By Andrew Gripp
Let’s imagine there are three voters all in the same district: Mr. Blue, Mrs. White, and Mrs. Green.…
Ballot Access News reports:
On January 29, the California State Court of Appeals ruled that California’s minor parties are not entitled to a trial, to present evidence showing that the top-two system injures voting rights of voters who wish to vote for minor parties in the general election.
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Partisan Advocate Fears Calif. Court May Side with Voters
Jan 16, 2015
By Shawn M. Griffiths
On Thursday, January 15, oral arguments were made before the California State Appeals Court in San Francisco in the case Rubin v.…