The Republican Party of Virginia frequently uses conventions instead of primaries to choose its nominees. This year, it chose U.S. House nominees in the Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Districts with conventions. Party rules now permit ranked choice voting in these nominating meetings, and ranked choice voting was used in two meetings: the Tenth District, on May 21; and the Eleventh District, on May 7. See this Fairvote story.
On May 24, New York held a special election for Assemblymember, 58th district, in Brooklyn. The results: Democratic 74.85%; independent 18.09%; Working Families 4.74%; Republican 1.64%; Conservative .67%. The Democratic and Working Families Party had the same nominee; the Republican and Conservative Parties had the same nominee.
When this seat was last up, in November 2020, there had only been one candidate, who received 95.19% of the vote on the Democratic line, and 4.81% on the Working Families line.
On May 25, the Arizona House passed SB 1460 unanimously. It is an omnibus election law bill. It lets independent candidates use electronic signatures. Existing law only allows candidates running in a primary to use electronic signatures. The bill is now through the legislature.
Unfortunately, it also moves the deadline to file as a declared write-in candidate from September to July, which defeats the whole purpose of having write-in space available on ballots. Write-in candidates, when they have won, have usually been candidates who entered the race late in the season, due to something unexpected having happened.
On May 25, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected the redistricting plan for the state legislature for the fifth time. Here is the opinion in League of Women Voters of Ohoi v Ohio Redistricting Commission, 2022-Oh-1727. Thanks to ElectionLawBlog for this news.
On May 25, U.S. District Court Judge Paul A. Engelmayer declined to order the state of New York to move the primaries for statewide office, Assembly, and local office, from June 28 to August 23. There will thus be two primary dates in New York state this year, because the U.S. House and State Senate primaries will be in August.
The judge issued a one-sentence order. Probably later he will explain his reasoning.
