On June 1, the Ninth Circuit asked attorneys for the Arizona Secretary of State to respond to the request for rehearing that the Libertarian and Green Parties had filed on May 8. This is a sign that the Ninth Circuit is looking seriously at whether to rehear the case. The issue is the state registration form that gives a checkbox to the two largest parties, to make it easy for applicants to register into the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. If a voter wishes to register into any other qualified party, he or she must know about the existence of the other party and write-in the name of that party on the blank line labeled “other.” The original Ninth Circuit decision had said this is just a “slight” burden on the Libertarian Party and the Green Party, even though the law lets them remain ballot-qualified if they get their registration above two-thirds of 1%. The Green Party has never met this registration test, and is thus forced to do a difficult petition every four years.