Various minor parties are only days away from filing new constitutional lawsuits against North Carolina, Iowa and New Jersey. In North Carolina the Libertarian Party will argue that the state constitution (which requires that elections be “Free”) does not permit the state to require minor parties to submit 70,000 or so signatures in order to get on the ballot, and then to poll 10% for governor or president to remain on. The case will be filed in state court.

In Iowa, the ACLU will file a lawsuit for the Green and Libertarian Parties against the state’s practice of forcing all voters to register “Republican”, “Democrat”, or “independent” on voter registration forms. Iowa is the only state in which it is physically impossible for a voter to register into any party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties. It is one of only two states without a blank line in the “party” question, on the voter registration form. The other state, Kansas, also doesn’t have a blank line, but at least Kansas has a checkbox for 4 parties instead of only 2.

In New Jersey, the Libertarian, Green and Conservative Parties are about to file a lawsuit in state court against several election laws that discriminate against all parties except the Democratic and Republican Parties.