On January 6, the Oregon Secretary of State ruled that Nicholas Kristof does not meet the residency requirement to run for Governor of Oregon in 2022. Here is a copy of her letter. Thanks to several people for this news.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this story about the Eleventh Circuit ruling of January 5. This story is better than most such stories, because the reporter put near the top of the story the fact that the law has existed since 1943 and no minor party candidate for U.S. House has ever been able to comply.
On January 4, the Maine Secretary of State refused to let members of the Green Party collect primary petition signatures from independent voters, even though the federal court ordered the Secretary of State to let Libertarian Party candidates get primary signatures from independent voters. The law requiring a large number of signatures to get on a primary ballot, as applied to small qualified parties, has already been held unconstitutional.
It is likely that the Maine Green Party will now intervene in the Libertarian Party lawsuit, which is still an open case, and ask for the same relief for primary petitions.
At 9 a.m. eastern, January 6, President Joe Biden gave a twenty-minute speech about the events of January 6, 2021, and about democracy. Here is a link, although Biden doesn’t speak until the eleven-and-one-half-minute mark. The first three minutes is blank, and then there is a speech by Vice-President Kamala Harris, followed by the President’s speech.
At the 24-minute through 26-minute marks, Biden talks about claims that the November 2020 election returns are not accurate. He points out that persons who think there was vote fraud never question any of the congressional or gubernatorial results, even though those offices were on the same ballots, cast by the same people at the same time.
Of course it would be very good if he would ever mention the treatment of voters who wish to vote for candidates who are not major party nominees, although in fairness, the speech is focused on the events of one year ago, which is a different subject.
On January 5, a Texas trial court in Bexar County ruled that Lisa Uresti-Dasher should remain on the Democratic primary ballot. She is seeking a judicial nomination. She was challenged by her opponent, mainly because the opponent felt that she had used two different versions of her surname, Uresti-Dasher and Uresti Dasher. See this story.