On October 7, the state of New York filed a notice of appeal to the Second Circuit in Upstate Jobs Party v Kosinski, n.d., 6:18cv-459. This is the case over the law letting qualified parties donate more money to their nominees than unqualified parties are permitted to donate. The U.S. District Court had struck the law down on equal protection grounds.
On Tuesday, October 12, the Georgia Secretary of State presented evidence in state trial court that his investigators had examined all the Fulton County absentee ballots, and found none suspicious. There had been charges that some of them had never been creased, but the investigation found no such ballots. On Wednesday, the state court relied on that evidence to dismiss the case. See this story. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
Florida will hold a special election to fill the vacancy in the U.S. House, 20th district, on January 11, 2022. The Democratic and Republican Parties will choose their nominees in a special primary in December 2021. The Libertarian Party is the only other party with a candidate, and it is possible to know that Mike ter Maat will be on the race because he is unopposed for the Libertarian nomination. There will also be two independent candidates on the ballot, Jim Flynn and Leonard Serratore.
On October 12, the Montana Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit against a new Montana law that prohibits any political committee from petitioning inside a public college residence hall, dining facility, or athletic facility. The new law, SB 319, also bans voter registration drives inside such places. Montana Democratic Party v Jacobsen, 9:21cv-119.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Donald W. Molloy, a Clinton appointee. Thanks to the Institute for Free Speech for the link.
On October 11, the Alaskan Independence Party asked the Alaska Supreme Court to hear its appeal in the case against the top-four initiative passed by the voters in November 2020.
