On January 19, the plaintiffs in Benezet Consulting v Cortes asked for injunctive relief. The issues in the case are three Pennsylvania ballot access restrictions for primary petitions: (1) the ban on out-of-state circulators; (2) the requirement that each petition sheet be notarized; (3) the ban on a voter signing two different petitions for the same office.

Primary petitioning in Pennsylvania starts on January 26 and ends on February 16, so the judge is likely to act on the request quickly. The same three restrictions were struck down as applied to general election petitions last year, and the state didn’t appeal that decision. The new case tries to get the same relief for primary petitions. The plaintiffs include a professional petitioning company.

Although the primary case was originally assigned to Judge John Jones, it has been re-assigned to Judge Yvette Kane, a Clinton appointee.