On June 3, the California Secretary of State released a new registration tally. Since the last tally, which was as of April 8, all six qualified parties have gained, and the percentage of people not registered in any qualified party has declined.

The new percentages, which are as of May 23, 2022: Democratic 46,77%; Republican 23.93%; American Independent 3.42%; Libertarian 1.03%; Peace & Freedom .535%; Green .422%; independent, other, and unknown 23.90%.

Percentages in April 2022 were: Democratic 46.75%; Republican 23.92%; American Independent 3.39%; Libertarian 1.02%; Peace & Freedom .530%; Green .418%; independent, other, and unknown 23.97%.

Among the unqualified parties, the Common Sense Party has 20,813, a sharp drop from their last tally, which was 30,882 as of January 4. There was no tally for them in April 2022 because they hadn’t renewed their request for a tally. See the full May 2022 Report here.

On June 3, the People’s Party of Florida filed a federal lawsuit against the Florida law that won’t let a party nominate someone who hasn’t been a member for a year before filing. The People’s Party became ballot-qualified in Florida less than a year ago, so the law prohibits the party from having any candidates whatsoever in its first year on the ballot. No one was able to be registered in the People’s Party before it became ballot-qualified.

The candidate-plaintiff wishes to be the People’s Party nominee for Pasco County Board of County Commissioners. People’s Party of Florida v Florida Department of State, m.d., 8:22cv-1274.

The only two other states that ever blocked a new party from running any candidates in its first year of qualified existence were Nevada and Oklahoma, but the laws of both those states, as applied to new parties, were struck down long ago. The Independent American Party of Nevada won its case in the State Supreme Court in 1975, and the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma won its case in U.S. District Court in 1980. Here is the People’s Party complaint. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Thomas P. Barber.

On June 3, David Ritter sent this letter to the U.S. Supreme Court, in response to the June 2 opinion of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court that said postal ballots in which the voter forgot to date the signature on the outer envelope should be counted. Ritter is the 2021 candidate for local office whose close election triggered the lawsuit. His letter belittles the Commonwealth Court Opinion and again urges the U.S. Supreme Court to disallow such ballots.