On May 31 and June 1, two Republican gubernatorial candidates asked the Michigan Supreme Court to put them on the ballot. See this story. They are currently off the ballot because a random sample of their petitions showed massive numbers of forged signatures. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
June 1 was the deadline for candidates to file for the August 16 Alaska top-four primary.
For U.S. Senate, there are nine Republicans, three Democrats, two Alaskan Independence Party members, one Libertarian, and five independents. Total 20.
For U.S. House, there are eleven Republicans, four Democrats, two Libertarians, one American Independent registrant who lives in California, and thirteen independents. Total 31.
For Governor/Lt. Gov., there are five Republicans, one Democrat, one Libertarian, one Alaskan Independence member, and two independents. Total 10.
Here is the list, including legislative candidates. Candidates still have time to withdraw, so the final list might shrink.
On May 31, U.S. District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi, a Biden appointee, refused to dismiss the lawsuit Conforti v Hanlon, 3:20cv-8267. This action keeps the case alive. It was filed to overturn the New Jersey election procedures that give some candidates in primaries a much better ballot position than certain other candidates preferred by the party organization. Here is the 39-page order.
The New York petition deadline for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, was May 31. It appears that six statewide petitions were submitted: the Libertarian, Green, Independence, Freedom and Unite statewide candidates, and independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare.
The nominee of the Unite Party is Harry Wilson, who is also seeking the Republican nomination later this month. The nominee of the Freedom Party is Skiboky Stora, who originally tried to get on the Republican primary ballot for Governor but did not succeed.
On May 31, this brief was filed in Ritter v Migliori, 21A772, in the U.S. Supreme Court, by the advocates of counting ballots in which the voter had forgotten to add a date next to his or her signatures on the outer envelope of postal ballots.
