As noted earlier, on February 3 a Connecticut voter who was expelled from the Republican Party then filed a federal lawsuit, demanding to be restored to the registration rolls as a Republican so that she can vote in the April Republican presidential primary. On February 26, the judge in her case set up a settlement conference, which will probably resolve the problem. The case is Miller v Dunkerton, 3:16cv-174.

The party expelled her because last year, without joining the Democratic Party, she accepted a Democratic nomination for a local special election.