The Realistic Balance Party, a party that exists only to contest city elections in Middletown, Connecticut, still doesn’t know if its candidates will be on the November 5, 2013 ballot. See this story. A decision from a lower state court is expected by the end of the week.

Several similar lawsuits had been adjudicated recently in a few other Connecticut cities and towns. A new state law that year said that parties that nominate by convention must obtain the signatures of all their nominees, on the certificates that the party submits to election officials. The new law was not publicized and courts have been trying to determine if due process for these parties and their nominees was violated when they were kept off the ballot.