On March 30, proponents of an Ohio initiative filed this reply brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Thompson v DeWine, 20-1072. This is the case over whether lower courts should have granted some ballot access relief during 2020 to initiative petition campaigns, due to the health crisis.
The Court has this case on its conference for April 16.
The NY City Lens, an on-line news source in New York city, has this article about the Socialist Workers Party. The article covers its campaign for Mayor of New York city and New Jersey Governor. The story seems to say the SWP is giving up getting the needed 3,750 signatures for Mayor of New York city, even though the deadline is not until May 25.
The Manchester Union-Leader, the biggest newspaper in New Hampshire, has this op-ed advocating a vote for Stephen Hollenberg, the American Solidarity Party nominee. He is running in a special election to fill the vacancy in the New Hampshire House, Hillsborough 21 district. There are three candidates on the April 13 ballot; the others are a Republican and a Democrat.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has this op-ed by Michael Feinstein, criticizing SB 292, the Nevada bill to make it substantially more difficult for new or previously unqualified parties to get on the ballot.
Arkansas Representative Joshua Bryant (R-Rogers) has introduced HB 1784. It somewhat improves the non-presidential independent candidate petition deadline. In midterm years it would move from March 1 to May 1. In presidential years, it would move from mid-December of the year before the election, to mid-February, which is still far too early.
The only reason this bill exists is that in December 2017, a U.S. District Court struck down the old deadline, which is still on the books. The bill is an attempt to conform the statute to the court ruling. The case was Moore v Martin, e.d., 4:14cv-65.
