On May 12, the Idaho Republican Party sued the Bonneville County Republican Central Committee to stop the county party from endorsing candidates in the May 17 Republican primary. Under party rules, the county party has a right to endorse for county partisan office, but not federal or state office. See this story. On May 13, a state trial court ruled in favor of the state party. Thanks to ElectionLawBlog for the link.
On May 13, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed SF 108, the bill that bans fusion. He signed it the next day it was sent to him.
Law Professor Derek Muller has this interesting post at ElectionLawBlog, about inaccurate information about congressional candidate qualifications on the websites of at least three state election offices: California, Virginia, and Washington. He says he hasn’t checked the websites of most states.
On May 16, the Alaska House Rules Committee passed SB 161. It has now passed the Senate and all committees in the house. It will probably receive a vote on the House floor on Tuesday, May 17.
It eases the definition of a qualified party, from registration membership of 3% of the last vote cast (approximately 11,000 registered members) to exactly 5,000.
John Thompson Parker, the Peace & Freedom Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California, has recently spent a week in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine. Although other U.S. politicians and members of Congress have also visited Ukraine during May, Parker is probably the only U.S. candidate who has spent his time in the Russian zone. Many activists in the Peace & Freedom Party are also active in parties that operate within PFP. Parker is with the Socialist Unity Party, which split from the Workers World Party in 2018. The Socialist Unity Party newspaper is La Lucha. Here is a link to La Lucha in which Thompson talks about his trip.
