The Michigan Advance, an on-line news source for Michigan government and politics, has this story, pointing out that any Republican who tried and failed to get on the party’s primary ballot to run for Governor still has time to submit 12,000 valid signatures as an independent candidate. It also says they are free to seek the nomination of one of Michigan’s ballot-qualified minor parties. The Natural Law Party, which is still qualified in Michigan but no other state, has a history of placing any candidate on the general election ballot who seeks its nomination, regardless of ideology.

Filing for the Minnesota election has closed. The only unqualified parties that petitioned for a statewide or U.S. House race in Minnesota this year are the Socialist Workers Party, and the Independence-Alliance Party.

The four qualified parties are Democratic-Farmer-Labor, Republican, Legal Marijuana Now, and Grassroots Legalize Cannabis.

This is the first election since 2010 with no Libertarians on the statewide ballot. It is the first election since 1994 with no Green Party nominees on the statewide ballot. Here is a link to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s list of candidates. The state statewide offices are listed at the very end, following the legislative candidates.

On June 16, three of the four Alaska Democrats who had filed to run for U.S. House in the regularly-scheduled election withdrew their names from the ballot. This is to enhance the chances of the party having one and only one candidate in the August primary. See this story.