The West Virginia Secretary of State has posted a list of November 2022 candidates. West Virginia has no statewide offices up in 2022, so the only federal and state offices are two U.S. House seats, State Senate, and House of Delegates.

The Libertarian Party has four legislative nominees, and the Mountain Party (the Green Party affiliate) has two legislative nominees.

The Americans Coming Together Party has a nominee for U.S. House, and three for the legislature. The ACT Party was formerly the Independent Party, but it changed its name in 2021. Two of its nominees are using the “ACT” label, and two are using “independent” as a ballot label.

Here is the party’s website, listing its nominees.

Law Professor Mark Brown has this op-ed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, on the subject of Ohio’s faulty system for checking the validity of signatures on ballot access petitions.

His op-ed does not mention that Ohio is one of only three states this year with no minor party or independent candidates on the ballot for statewide office (for the states that have no statewide offices up this year, this comparison uses U.S. House).

On September 9, a Missouri state trial court issued a ruling that keeps the marijuana statewide initiative on the ballot. Sweeney v Ashcroft. On September 12, the State Court of Appeals affirmed that decision, case no. WD85679. Here is the State Appeals Court decision.

Originally the Missouri county election officials had found the initiative didn’t have enough valid signatures. But then the Secretary of State reviewed the work of the counties, and revalidated enough signatures. Then the challenger had sued the Secretary of State, arguing that the Secretary overstepped his authority. But the court said the Secretary of State is the ultimate decider. The challenger says he will appeal. See this article. Thanks to Ken Bush for the link.