On October 30, an independent candidate for the Arizona legislature, George Seaman, sued over that state’s policy of giving a free list of registered voters to the qualified parties, but no one else. The case is Seaman v Yavapai County, cv-2006-1211, Prescott.

In 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court settled this issue favorably. If government officials give the list of registered voters to the qualified parties, they must also give it to candidates of non-qualified parties and independent candidates. Arizona officials have known about this precedent for many years, but they have never changed their law. The precedent was Socialist Workers Party v New York State Bd. of Elections, 400 U.S. 806 (1970). The US Supreme Court action was a summary affirmance of a 3-judge U.S. District Court decision.