This article says Ross “Rocky” Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, intends to revive the Justice Party, which he helped create in 2011 but when has been dormant for many years.
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A majority of members of the Washington, D.C., city council, are sponsoring a bill to use ranked choice voting in District of Columbia elections. Presumably the bill relates both to primaries and general elections. See this story.
On June 14, the California independent citizens redistricting commission voted unanimously to ask the California Supreme Court to set aside the legal deadlines for the commission to finish its work. This request was made because the U.S. Census Bureau can’t furnish the data as early as it usually does. See this story. The California 2022 primary is in June.
Many Working Families Party nominees in the New York city election of November 2021 (who are almost entirely almost Democratic Party nominees) are being kept off the ballot as WFP nominees. See this story, which says the city Board of Elections has not permitted electronic signatures even though the Board did permit them in 2020.
The Arkansas Secretary of State has verified the petitions for presidential status for 2024 for the Green Party and the Prohibition Party. They each needed 1,000 signatures. The Secretary had earlier verified the presidential petition for the American Solidarity Party.
These three parties did their 2024 presidential petition early because this year the Arkansas legislature increased the requirement to 5,000 signatures, but that law is not in effect yet, so the old law controls at this time.