A U.S. District Court in Alabama will hold a telephone hearing in De La Fuente v Merrill on Tuesday, September 27. This is the case on whether the Secretary of State violated the constitution when he put Rocky De La Fuente on the ballot, and then at the end of August noticed De La Fuente had run in the Democratic presidential primary this year in Alabama, and removed him from the ballot.

It turns out that Alabama must reprint all the ballots it already printed anyway, because of an error noticed on September 26 concerning the language of a ballot measure.