Here is a commentary from UC Davis Law Professor Vikram David Amar on the recent Illinois State Court decision that ruled unconstitutional (for 2024 only) a recent law passed in Illinois that bars “slating,” or the placement of candidates of established parties on General Election ballots, after the Primary date, when a party did not have a candidate in that district who gathered a sufficient number of signatures to appear on the Primary ballot in that district. This was because the court found that the law change was changing the rules in the middle of the election process for 2024.

In future years, the law will be to the detriment of Illinois voters, as there will be fewer contested General Elections in Illinois.

Here is the story from Wired magazine.

Thanks to politicalwire.com for the story referral.

Here is a story about a lawsuit filed in Nassau County.

Here is a story about a lawsuit filed in Dutchess County.

Here is a link to the Complaint in the Dutchess County litigation.  

The Dutchess County lawsuit fails to note that, while Kennedy and Nicole Shanahan, his VP running mate, both live in California, one of them could move to another state before January 6, 2025, which would allow them to receive California electoral votes, in the event that they won the presidential election in that state.

Given the numbers presented in the USA Today article about the Nassau County lawsuit, the Kennedy/Shanahan ticket would need a signature validity rate of only 30.79% in New York. The suit alleges that only 21.31% of the petition signatures are valid.

The Dutchess case is Cartwright v Kennedy, 52389/2024.  The Nassau case is Smith v Kennedy, 000427/2024.