"On May 23, briefs were filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in Chamness v Bowen, the case that challenges two particular aspects of California’s top-two election system (the ban on counting write-ins, and the discriminatory policy that lets some candidates show a party label, but not others). Here is the state’s brief. Here is the brief of former Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, who has intervened in the case.
The state’s brief is interesting because it includes a copy of the sample ballot from the May 17 special U.S. House election in the 36th district. The intervenor’s brief is interesting because of its scornful, hostile tone. It says the rights at stake are “trivial” and “minor”."
Briefs Filed in U.S. District Court in Defense of California Top-Two Details
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