Wisconsin holds a special state senate election on April 6, to fill the vacant State Senate seat, 13th district. The vacancy exists because the previous State Senator, Scott Fitzgerald, resigned to take a seat in Congress.

The American Solidarity Party has petitioned to place its nominee on the ballot. He is Ben Schmitz. He will face the Republican and Democratic nominees (who will be determined in February primaries), and an independent candidate, Spencer Zimmerman, whose ballot label will be “Trump Conservative.” Thanks to Independent Political Report for this news.

Schmitz needed 400 signatures to get on the ballot. He is the second American Solidarity Party nominee for a state legislative office to appear on a ballot with the party label. The first was Monica Sohler, who ran in 2017 for New Jersey’s legislature, Assembly District 6.

The New York Libertarian Party, and the New York Green Party, have filed this brief in Libertarian Party of New York v New York State Board of Elections, s.d., 1:20cv-5820. This is the case over the ballot access law passed on April 1, 2020, that tripled the number of signatures for statewide independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties; and also more than tripled the number of votes needed for a party to be ballot-qualified.

The state has not yet responded, but it will soon.

Peace & Freedom Party member Ernesto Alexander Huerta is on the ballot for the March 2, 2021 California special election to fill the vacancy in the State Senate, 30th district. The district is in southwest Los Angeles County. The seat is vacant because the former State Senator, Holly Mitchell, resigned to take a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

There will be seven candidates on the ballot. See the list here. The list includes three Democrats, two Republicans, and one independent.