Iran holds a presidential election on June 18, 2021. Four candidates are on the ballot. Also, thirty-two other candidates applied but were rejected. When a candidate is rejected, no public statement is released that gives the reason. See this wikipedia article.
The North Carolina Board of Elections is in the process of converting all the registered Green Party members, and all the Constitution Party members, to independents. The Board is not asking these voters for their opinion in the matter. The parties didn’t poll enough votes in November 2020 to remain on the ballot, but the Board had said if they complete their 2022 party petitions by mid-June 2021, they could keep their registrants.
Very few states don’t allow voters to be registered members of unqualified parties. Generally when a party goes off the ballot, election officials don’t disturb their registrants, even though the state often stops putting their registration tally on the state elections website. Other states that do erase registrants when parties go off the ballot are Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island. In Oklahoma, when a party goes off the ballot, it loses its registrants but is then free to re-register them even though the party is not ballot-qualified. See this story.
Georgia held two special legislative elections on June 15. Here is a link to the results.
The Pennsylvania state elections office, in response to a freedom of information request, has released the number of write-in votes cast for Howie Hawkins for president in November 2020. The various counties that tallied write-ins say there are 1,282 such votes.
The Eleventh Circuit will hear Libertarian Party of Alabama v Merrill, 20-13356, on Tuesday, August 24. This is the case over Alabama’s policy of giving the list of registered voters free to the qualified parties, but charging approximately $36,000 to parties that are trying to get on the ballot. The U.S. District Court had upheld the policy, even though in 1970 the U.S. Supreme Court summarily affirmed a 3-judge U.S. District Court decision from New York that said if the government gives a free list to the qualified parties, it must also give a free list to parties trying to petition.
