On May 25, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected the redistricting plan for the state legislature for the fifth time. Here is the opinion in League of Women Voters of Ohoi v Ohio Redistricting Commission, 2022-Oh-1727. Thanks to ElectionLawBlog for this news.
On May 25, U.S. District Court Judge Paul A. Engelmayer declined to order the state of New York to move the primaries for statewide office, Assembly, and local office, from June 28 to August 23. There will thus be two primary dates in New York state this year, because the U.S. House and State Senate primaries will be in August.
The judge issued a one-sentence order. Probably later he will explain his reasoning.
Creede Newton, an investigative journalist who has worked in the past for Al Jazeera, and who now writes for the Southern Poverty Law Center, has this lengthy article about the Libertarian Party’s recent internal divisions.
On May 25, the plaintiffs in Migliari v Lehigh County Board of Elections, 22-1499, filed their brief in the Third Circuit. This is the case in which the Third Circuit relied on the “materiality” clause in the federal Voting Rights Act to rule that postal ballots in which the voter forgot to add the date on the outer envelope is not reason to invalidate that ballot. The Third Circuit already ruled that the ballot should be counted. Now one of the candidates is trying to persuade the Third Circuit to stay its own decision, so that he can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The May 25 brief points out that no one knows at this point what impact counting those ballots will have. It might even help the candidate who is fighting to prevent the ballots from being counted.
The Republican and Democratic Parties in Georgia had primaries on May 24. Here is a link to the Georgia Secretary of State’s website, showing election returns as they come in. With 95.6% of the vote in, the incumbent Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, has 52.3% of the vote. If he continues to poll above 50%, he won’t face a run-off primary.
