The Nation has this article about the elimination of most Working Families Party nominees in the New York city election of November 2, 2021. The WFP nominees are almost entirely also individuals who are Democratic nominees. Their inability to appear on the WFP line relates to a technicality about electronic candidacy forms.
A group of Colorado Republican activists are working to persuade the state party to end primaries for the party for 2022, and instead nominate by caucus and convention. In order for the proposal to be adopted by the party, three-fourths of the members of the state governing body must agree.
Major parties in Colorado have the right to make this change, as a result of the initiative that passed a few years ago that said if a party uses primaries, it must let independent voters participate in those primaries.
A 3-judge U.S. District Court will hold a trial September 27-29 in McConachie v Illinois State Board of Elections, n.d., 1:21cv-3091. This is the lawsuit over the validity of the Illinois legislative redistricting for the new decade. The Illinois legislature is the only legislature in the nation that has already drawn new legislative districts. Because the 2020 census data isn’t available yet, the legislature used other data from the American Community Survey, which is conducted by the Census Bureau but a far cry from the regular census. Two sets of plaintiffs are asking the court to rule the legislative districts invalid, and to force the legislature to do the job again once the census data is available in August.
An irony is that Illinois legislative district boundaries now may be delayed more than if the legislature had simply waited until the census data is available.
The Illinois legislature has not done any U.S. House redistricting yet.
Six candidates for Mayor of New York successfully completed the petition to be on the November 2021 ballot for Mayor of New York city. In addition, each of the four qualified parties nominated someone.
The six petition candidates are: Quanda Francis, Empowerment; Raja Flores, Humanity United; Stacey Prussman, Libertarian; Skiboky Stora, Our Lawbreaker; Catherine Rojas, Party for Socialism & Liberation; and Fernando Mateo, Save Our City.
The nominees of the qualified parties are: Democratic, Eric Adams; Republican, Curtis Sliwa; Conservative, William Pepitone; Working Families not yet determined.
The petitioning candidates each needed 3,750 signatures. Although that sounds like a modest requirement, there is no other instance for an election in 2021 in which a minor party or independent candidate overcame any petition requirement greater than that.
Here is the final list of California gubernatorial candidates. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg for the link.
