On Octdober 29, the South Dakota Supreme Court issued an order in Kathol v Johnson. It will issue a full opinion later. The issue is the petition validity of Celestine Stadnick’s petition and declaration of candidacy. The address on her declaration of candidacy doesn’t match the address on her voter registration record. Also, on her petition, some of her signers didn’t list the entire name of their county. The lower court had kept her on the ballot on May 19, so the ballots had already been printed with her name. She is the Democratic nominee. Her Republican opponent had brought the challenge.

Stadnick is running for State Senate, 27th district, which encompasses the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Here is an article about independent candidates in South Dakota this year that was published before the State Supreme Court had acted.

On November 2, the federal government asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order California to sequester approximately 20,000 ballots. U.S.A. v State of California, 26A624. Here is the filing.

The Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives has released q list of candidates for U.S. Senate and U.S. House who are on the ballot. See it here.

The Clerk says the information is from official sources. Yet the Clerk’s book sometimes slightly deviates from official state sources on the matter of ballot labels. For example, in California’s Sixth District, Kevin Kiley is listed in the book as “independent”, whereas the ballot lists him as “Party preference: none.” Also, the book lists Dan J. Sullivan of Alaska as “Republican”, yet he is on the ballot with no party label. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the news about the book.