On September 20, Herb Lux, an independent candidate for U.S. House in Virginia, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order the Virginia State Board of Elections to check his petition for validity.  The Board has refused to do so, saying even if he has 1,000 otherwise valid signatures, most of his signatures are invalid because most of them were collected by Lux himself, who doesn’t live in the district he is running in.  The U.S. District Court upheld the residency requirement, and the 4th circuit refused to order the Board to check the petition.   Here is the application to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Thanks to ElectionLawBlog for the link.