On Monday, May 30, Dr. Mehmet Oz asked the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to file an amicus brief in Ritter v Migliori, 21A772. This is the case in which the Third Circuit used the “materiality” portion of the federal Voting Rights Act to rule that Pennsylvania ballots in which the voter forgot to add a date to the signature should still count. The Third Circuit ruling noted that all postal ballots receive a date-stamp when they are received.

Here is the proposed amicus, which doesn’t even discuss the federal Voting Rights Act, and which says that allowing such ballots might interfere with the recount currently underway in the May 2022 Republican U.S. Senate primary. The amicus also says that allowing such ballots (all of whom concern a general election for local office in 2021) would confuse the voters.

Brian Doherty of Reason has this article about the events of the Libertarian National Convention being held in Sparks, Nevada, on Saturday, May 28. The convention continues on May 29-30.

According to this story, independent candidate Sam Hunkler has qualified to be on the November 2022 ballot for Governor of Maine.

Given that fact, and other recent developments, such as the success of the Alabama general election petition for the Libertarian Party, and the Arizona primary ballot access success of Libertarian Marc Victor, it is possible that New York will be the only state in the nation with no opponent on the ballot to all the statewide Democratic and Republican nominees in 2022. It is still too early to tell about Kentucky (where the petition deadline is in August) and North Dakota (where the independent candidate petition deadline is in September).

Also, the above statement doesn’t apply to the states in which parties don’t have nominees and which limit the number of candidates who can appear on the general election ballot to just two (California and Washington) or four (Alaska).