On September 3, the Missouri Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the referendum petition filed months ago must go on to the November ballot. The referendum concerns U.S. House district boundaries. When the legislature redrew the U.S. House districts earlier last year, opponents of the new lines mounted a referendum petition. But then the Secretary of State refused to put it on the ballot, arguing that the referendum process can’t be used to alter federal election rules. The State Supreme Court has reversed that decision. Furthermore, this means that the old districts will not be used until after the voters vote on the issue.

The Secretary of State says he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the State Supreme Court. Here is the State Supreme Court opinion. Harris v Hoskins, SC101806.

On September 2, the New Mexico Forward Party filed a notice of appeal in its ballot access case. The case number is 26-2145.

On September 2, Michigan filed this response in the U.S. Supreme Court in Americans for Citizen Voting v Michigan Board of State Canvassers, 26A275. The issue is whether an initiative petition has enough valid signatures. The state has used a random sample procedure, and if only three more signatures had been validated, the initiative would have had enough. Sponsors of the initiative had submitted affidavits from voters whose signatures had been rejected, saying that is their real signature. But the state rejected that evidence for various procedural reasons.

The appeal had been filed on August 31, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh had then asked the state to respond by September 2, which it has now done.