The North Carolina Green Party has received information that an organized Democratic Party group has the list of persons who signed the 2022 Green Party ballot access petition, and Democrats are phoning the signers and asking them to retract their signatures. It is too late for the Green Party to be adding any new signers. The counties have already checked the signatures and the Green Party has enough valid signatures. There is no provision in the North Carolina election code for signers to retract their signatures from a party petition.

On June 22, a North Carolina Administrative Law Judge ruled that Al Pisano, Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate in 2020, should not be required to pay a fine of $2,750 for having been late with his campaign finance reports. Here is the Opinion. It says that the North Carolina Board of Elections failed to follow its own procedures. The procedures say that the Board should have notified Pisano immediately when they didn’t receive his report. Instead they did not communicate with him until a year later, when they sent him a bill for $2,750.

The Administrative Law Judge also found that when Pisano asked for a waiver, the Board did not even address most of his points, and the letter denying waiver was unsigned and didn’t even appear to address the type of fine that had been levied. Thanks to Kevin Hayes for the link.

On June 20, the New York Libertarian and Green Parties asked the Second Circuit for an injunction, putting their candidates on the November 2022 ballot. The case was already open but had been moving slowly. It is Libertarian Party of New York v New York, 21-1464. Here is the here.

On June 21, the State Board of Elections filed a brief in opposition. See it brief.