On July 15, a U.S. District Court Magistrate heard Day v New Hampshire Secretary of State, 1:26cv-499. This is the case in which independent U.S. Senate candidate Aaron Day was barred from the ballot because he hadn’t finished updating his voter registration address on the day he filed his Declaration of Candidacy. See this news story.
The state’s rationale for keeping someone off the ballot, explained in the article, has no relevance whatsoever to candidates for U.S. House, because a candidate for U.S. House need not live in the district in which he or she is running. And of course the state’s argument has no relevance for a statewide office either. The state’s rationale only applies to state legislative races, and this case has nothing to do with state legislative races.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QYSF9csn4M4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PImwW_-oBpk
https://notthebee.com/article/meet-the-senate-candidate-who-wants-to-replace-graham-platner-on-the-ballot-in-maine
Tim in a previous discussion here:
“They should hve stuck with Platner. Everythign about him represents the values and principles of their party, and the allegations against him are unproven at best.”
Occupy Demon Rats on July 16, 2026 at 4:15 pm replied:
“He withdrew on his own, because even if the allegations against him weren’t true, they make it impossible for him to build momentum and far less likely he – thus, they – could win.
Long before the allegations which finally convinced him to drop out came out, so did many other allegations – and admitted facts – on a wide variety of things, all of which add up to you being correct that everything about him represents the (absolutely horrible) values and principles of their party (and of his subsequently covered up tattoo).