New Hampshire still has not drawn new U.S. House districts. The legislature passed the bill, HB 52, on March 17. Governor Chris Sununu then said he would veto it, but he has not vetoed it yet. Instead on March 22 he sent his own preferred plan to the legislature.

The petition for statewide independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, has a distribution requirement. There must be 1,500 signatures from each of the two U.S. House districts. It is impractical for anyone to circulate these petitions until the districts are settled. When they are settled, the petitioning period will have been shrunk; normally these petitions begin to circulate in January.

Courts in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, and Montana have ruled that when the normal petitioning period is shortened, states must either extend the deadline or reduce the number of signatures. All of these decisions were from U.S. District Courts, except one of the Georgia decisions and the Maryland decision was made by a U.S. Court of Appeals. A lawsuit in New Hampshire this year, based on these precedents, could potentially cut the number of signatures. There is a somewhat helpful New Hampshire precedent from 2020, when a U.S. District Court cut the number of signatures due to the Covid health crisis from 3,000 signatures to 1,950 signatures.

A law passed this year in Arizona, NB 2492, requires people who register to vote to attach proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or naturalization papers. On March 31, some Arizona voter advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit against the new law. Living United for Change in Arizona v Hobbs, 2:22cv-519. The lead plaintiff is usually referred to by its acronym, LUCHA. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton. Here is the Complaint.

Arizona and Kansas jointly passed similar laws some years ago, and they were struck down because Article One gives Congress the right to pass election laws concerning congressional elections, and Congress had already mandated a federal voter registration form that does not require such documentation. Arizona is now trying to get around this past ruling by saying that voters who register to vote without the documentation can still be considered registered for congressional elections, but not presidential elections.

Here is a Montana newspaper story about the March 30 federal court settlement that puts the Green Party back on the ballot. This appears to be the first newspaper story in the state on this news. Thanks to Steve Kelly for the link.

UPDATE: here is a second newspaper story, also published on April 2.
Here is another one, also published April 2.