On June 15, U.S. District Court Judge Allen C. Winsor, a Trump appointee, struck down the Florida law that makes it illegal for someone outside Florida to contribute more than $3,000 to a committee that is trying to qualify an initiative for the ballot. ACLU of Florida v Byrd, n.d., 4:21cv-190.

Judge Winsor had earlier enjoined the original law. The original law applied the cap on contributions to all persons, regardless of where they live. After that law was enjoined, the legislature amended it so that the ban only applies to persons who live outside of Florida. But the judge said the new version is also invalid. In fact, because the original purpose for the law was supposedly to limit fraud in petitioning, the judge said the amendment makes it even more obvious that the so-called rationale is weak. Here is the decision. Thanks to Mike Drucker for this news.

Voters in Portland, Oregon, will decide in November whether to use single tranferable voting to elect the city council. See this story. Thanks to Paula Lee for the link.

The Green Party is not a ballot-qualified party in Wisconsin. This month, the party successfully placed Sharyl McFarland on the November ballot as a candidate for Secretary of State, and if she gets 1% of the vote, the party will become ballot-qualified again.

The Constitution Party and the Libertarian Party are ballot-qualified in Wisconsin. They each nominate by primary, and candidates for statewide office get on the primary ballot with petitions of 2,000 voters. Any registered voter may sign these primary petitions. The Constitution Party has placed Andrew Zuelke on the party’s primary ballot for Treasurer, and the Libertarian Party has placed Neil Harmon on the Libertarian primary ballot for Secretary of State. They will each win their own party’s primary for those offices by default, and will appear on the November ballot. Each of them also needs to get 1% of the vote in order to preserve their party’s qualified status.