The Nevada Current has this story about the top-five initiative that will soon be circulating in Nevada.

Like other initiatives for top-two, top-four, and top-five, this one eliminates the easier method for a party to remain ballot-qualified. If the Nevada initiative became law, parties could no longer stay on the ballot by polling 1% of the statewide vote for any office. The vote test would shrink down to just president, and there would be no vote test at all in midterm years.

So far, all attempts to persuade top-anything proponents to address the problem have failed. One leader of the top-anything movement communicated via e-mail that it is “too late” to fix this problem in the group’s Missouri initiative.

On November 29, James R. Adams filed a second amended Complaint in Adams v Carney, 1:20cv-1680. This is the case over the Delaware law that says no one may serve on an important state court unless he or she is a member of one of the two largest parties. Adams is an independent.

Adams already won this case earlier, but then the state appealed and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he didn’t have standing because he hadn’t specifically said he wanted to be a judge. In his latest complaint, he makes it clear that he does want a judicial appointment.

On November 26, the New York Libertarian and Green Parties filed this reply brief in Libertarian Party of New York v New York State Board of Elections, 21-1464. The issues are the hostile changes made in 2020 to the ballot access laws for minor parties and statewide independent candidates. The Second Circuit will decide whether to enjoin any or all of the 2020 changes. If the Second Circuit agrees to an injunction, the Libertarian, Green, SAM, and Independence Parties would be back on the ballot for 2022.