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.

The North Carolina Green Party has collected the needed 13,865 valid signatures to be on the ballot for 2022 and 2024, according to this news story. This is the highest petition requirement that any state Green Party has met since 2016, when it overcame the Illinois requirement of 25,000. Thanks to Chris Cole for the link.

This is the first time the Green Party has ever successfully petitioned in North Carolina. It never appeared on the ballot in that state until 2018, and it was on the ballot in 2018 and 2020 because of a 2017 law that put all parties on the ballot automatically if their presidential nominee had been on the ballot in at least 35 states in the preceding presidential election.

In North Carolina, when a party gets on the ballot in a midterm year, it is also automatically on the ballot for the following presidential year.

This article presents data to show that enough persons who had voted in Georgia in Democratic primaries in 2020 voted in the 2022 Republican primary, and caused Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to win his primary outright.

It also shows that enough Democrats in North Carolina changed their registration to “Republican” so as to vote in this year’s Republican primary and cause the defeat of Congressman Madison Cawthorn.

Georgia has open primaries, in which there is no registration by party, and any voter is free to choose any party’s primary ballot.

North Carolina has partisan registration. Independents can vote in any party’s primary they wish, but party members can only vote in their own party’s primary. Therefore, party-switchers must re-register in advance of any primary.