Arizona Posts Candidate List

The Arizona Secretary of State has this list of candidates for the July 21 primary.

It is noteworthy that three Libertarians qualified for the Libertarian primary ballot for U.S. House (in the First, Second, and Sixth Districts). This is the first time any Libertarian has managed to get on the Libertarian primary ballot for U.S. House since the state changed the law in 2015 and made it very difficult for members of older qualified minor parties to get on their own party’s primary ballot.
The 2015 law does not affect any other qualified minor parties in Arizona, the Green Party and the No Labels Party.

U.S. District Court Denies Federal Government’s Request for Names of 2020 Atlanta Poll Workers

On July 7, U.S. District Court Judge William Ray, a Trump appointee, denied the federal government’s request for a subpoena. The federal government wanted to force the Fulton County, Georgia elections office to turn over the names and contact information of poll workers in the 2020 election. Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections v USA, n.d., 1:26cv-02777. Here is the order.

Todd Sloan, Independent Candidate in New York’s 24th U.S. House District, Sues to Get on Ballot

On July 1, Todd Sloan, an independent candidate for U.S. House in New York’s 24th district, filed a lawsuit in state court to get on the ballot. He needed 3,500 valid signatures. He had enough, except that all the signatures collected by one of his petitioners were invalidated because the petitioner listed a residence address that doesn’t match his residence address on his voter registration form. The lawsuit is filed in Albany County Supreme Court. See this story. Sloan argues that the law doesn’t require the petitioner’s address on the petitions to match the address on the voter registration records.