This is old news, but BAN hadn’t reported it. On September 17, 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Brian M. Cogan, a Bush Jr. appointee, struck down the New York ban on out-of-state circulators. The same judge had enjoined it in 2022, in a Libertarian lawsuit, Schmidt v Kosinski, e.d., 1:22cv-2210. Here is the four-page order.
Oklahoma law lets parties choose whether to let independents vote in their primaries or not. On April 12, the Oklahoma Libertarian Party voted to allow independents in its 2026 primaries.
Oklahoma Libertarians did not allow independents to vote in their primaries of 2018, 2020, 2022, or 2024.
Here is the story, hot off of Oklahoma Watch.
Thanks to Chris Powell for keeping us in the know!
On April 14, some overseas North Carolina voters filed their own lawsuit to save their November 2024 ballots from being invalidated. Cooley v Hirsch, e.d., 5:25cv-193. They put out that they followed all the rules when they voted last year. The rules said they didn’t need to enclose a copy of their photo ID. Yet now the State Supreme Court is ordering them all to send such copies in a short time period, or have their votes discarded.
The new case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Richard E. Myers, who already has the associated case filed by the State Board of Elections.
On April 7, President Donald Trump filed this brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in State of New Jersey v Trump, 24A886.
