The Yonkers Times has this editorial, criticizing the New York ballot access laws passed in 2020.
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On July 29, the Georgia Libertarian Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Cowen v Georgia Secretary of State. Here is the cert Petition. The case involves the Georgia law for minor party and independent candidate ballot access for U.S. House. The U.S. District Court had struck it down, but the Eleventh Circuit had restored it. It is so restrictive, no minor party has ever been able to be on the ballot for U.S. House in a regularly-schedule election since 1942. The law was passed in 1943.
On July 28, the North Carolina Green Party filed this brief in opposition to letting the national Democratic Party intervene in the Green Party’s ballot access case.
On July 28, a Superior Court in San Francisco held a hearing in a lawsuit challenging the city’s charter amendment that lets certain non-citizens vote in San Francisco School Board elections. See this story. The lawsuit says the State Constitution bars the city’s policy.
Cal Matters has this interesting story about write-in candidates in the June 2022 primary for partisan office, who placed second and therefore will be on the general election ballot. Of course these were all in districts in which only one name was on the primary ballot. The article is badly named and the contents of the article do not emphasize that it is too easy to qualify as a write-in, for the most part. The author is Sameea Kamal. Often, journalists do not choose the title of their articles. Thanks to Eric Wong for the link.