All states must strike a balance between the rights of political parties to ballot access and the need for reasonable ballot lengths and clear choices for voters. While North Carolina’s…
(Picture of Cornel West is Creative Commons by Gage Skidmore.) A pair of court cases concluded on August 12 confirmed that two new parties can be officially recognized and on…
Below is a copy of my written testimony to the North Carolina House Oversight and Reform Committee on the North Carolina State Board’s recent decision to certify the Constitution and…
(Photo of Cornel West by Gage Skidmore.) UPDATE (June 27): The Democratic-controlled North Carolina State Board of Elections voted to deny three parties ballot access. Republican board member Kevin Lewis…
On the first day of its new session, the Supreme Court of the United States heard a voting rights case with racial undertones from Alabama. Depending on the outcome of the decision,…
This is the third and final Civitas Partisan Index (CPI) post for the 2022 election. One crucial question is whether Republicans will win supermajorities, allowing them to override Gov. Roy…
The difference in how signatures on the Green Party petition were analyzed from the instructions in Numbered Memo 2020-19 is a tacit admission that the standards the State Board used…
They’re back. The North Carolina Green Party has collected 14,404 valid signatures on its petition to be an official party in North Carolina. That is just over the 13,865 valid…
It finally happened. As seen on the Carolina Elections Voter Registration Changes page, there are no longer any Constitution or Green Party registrations on the voter rolls in North Carolina.…
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist website predicts a future convergence between the Green Party and the Democrats. Nothing will come of [Jill] Stein’s recount (she earned less than 1.5…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute devotes his latest National Review Online column to an exploration of polling data. The latest numbers suggest that Trump’s convention bounce has dissipated, and…
View in your browser. 1. Three cheers for Koch Industries: they are not knuckling under The AP is reporting that, like the Locke Foundation, the Heartland Institute, and a number…