A U.S. District Court in North Carolina recently granted permission for a pending ballot access case to get a fresh start, and for the plaintiffs to file an amended complaint. Here is the Complaint in Leifert v Strach, m.d., 1:17cv-147. The case attacks the provisions for independent candidates to get on the ballot, which are far more severe than the procedures for newly-qualifying parties. It also attacks the requirement that nominees of qualified parties that nominate by convention must pay a filing fee, and the failure of the state to let voters register into unqualified parties, and the mandatory petitions for write-in candidates.