On April 15, Michael Crowell, an independent voter in North Carolina and an attorney, filed a new complaint in his lawsuit Crowell v Cooper, m.d., 1:17cv-515. The case was filed two years ago and has never had a decision. It challenges North Carolina law for mandating that only members of the two largest parties can serve on the State Board of Elections, or on a county board.

Here is the new complaint. The case has been stalled because the composition of the state board has been changing for the last few years. The legislature has been tinkering with the composition, and state courts have been either invalidating or validating some of those changes. The U.S. District Court handling Crowell’s case had asked him to hold the case until the changes stopped. Now it is ready to move ahead. The complaint has a good account of all the changes that have gone on in the last two years.