The Rhode Island House of Representatives is likely to reconvene September 2, to consider bills that the State Senate has already passed. Among those bills are the ballot access bills, SB 203 and HB 5426. They lower the number of signatures for a new party from 5% of the last vote cast, to 10,000 signatures. They also conform Rhode Island law to the federal court ballot access victory earlier this year, by eliminating the law that says such petitions can’t circulate until January 1 of an even year.