On June 2, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that postal ballots in which the voter forgot to add the date next to the signature on the outer envelope should be counted. McCormick for U.S. Senate v Chapman, 286 MD 2022. The Commonwealth Court relied on both the state constitution and state election law precedents, and also on the “materiality” portion of the federal voting rights Act.

The decision was then sent to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is pondering the issue in a related case dating from a 2021 election. One can read the decision using this link, which is the message to the U.S. Supreme Court.

June 1 was the deadline for candidates to file for the August 16 Alaska top-four primary.

For U.S. Senate, there are nine Republicans, three Democrats, two Alaskan Independence Party members, one Libertarian, and five independents. Total 20.

For U.S. House, there are eleven Republicans, four Democrats, two Libertarians, one American Independent registrant who lives in California, and thirteen independents. Total 31.

For Governor/Lt. Gov., there are five Republicans, one Democrat, one Libertarian, one Alaskan Independence member, and two independents. Total 10.

Here is the list, including legislative candidates. Candidates still have time to withdraw, so the final list might shrink.

The New York petition deadline for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, was May 31. It appears that six statewide petitions were submitted: the Libertarian, Green, Independence, Freedom and Unite statewide candidates, and independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare.

The nominee of the Unite Party is Harry Wilson, who is also seeking the Republican nomination later this month. The nominee of the Freedom Party is Skiboky Stora, who originally tried to get on the Republican primary ballot for Governor but did not succeed.