On Friday, July 9, a Superior Court held arguments in Newsom v Weber, 34-2021-8003666. The issue is whether California Governor Gavin Newsom should have his party label on the September 14 recall ballot. He missed a deadline to request that his party label be next to his name. The Secretary of State did not oppose him in court, but attorneys for the recall proponents, and for candidate Caitlyn Jenner, intervened and argued that the deadline should not be set aside.

The judge is James Arguelles, the same attorney who granted more time during the covid crisis of 2020 for the initiative proponents to complete their recall petition.

The website of the Council on Foreign Relations has this lengthy analysis of Green Parties around the world.

Election Administration Reports, the nation’s oldest periodical devoted to election administration, will cease publication this year. It has been published biweekly ever since 1971. The first editor was Richard Smolka, and the only other editor it has ever had has been John T. Willis.

The suspension of the publication is announced in the June 7, 2021 issue. The purpose of the publication was to help election administrators. It was an expensive publication; it cost $219 per year.