On October 7, a poll was released for Florida’s Amendment Three, the top-two initiative. It shows that 58% of the voters favor it. It needs 60% in order to pass. See this story.
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A U.S. District Court will hear arguments today (Wednesday October 7) in Craig v Simon, 0:20cv-2066. This is the case in which the Democratic Party nominee for U.S. House, 2nd district, is trying to overturn a state law that says the election for that seat should be postponed to February 9, 2021.
On October 6, the state chair of the Legal Marijuana Now Party, Tim Davis, filed a declaration in the case. It says the party nominated a replacement candidate on October 4, Paula Overby. The replacement is necessary because the Legal Marijuana Party Now’s original nominee died on September 21, which is the cause of the postponement of the election.
The Davis declaration points out that the Democratic Party nominee, the plaintiff, did not notify the Legal Marijuana Now Party that she had filed her lawsuit. It also points out that if the Democratic nominee wins the lawsuit, and the election for this seat is held on November 3, that the Legal Marijuana Now Party’s new nominee won’t be on the ballot.
On the evening of October 6, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer denied injunctive relief to the Maine Republicans who had asked him to stop ranked choice voting for president next month.
As of 5:30 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday, October 6, the U.S. Supreme Court still has taken no action on the Maine Republican request for an injunction to stop ranked choice voting for president. The Republican request had been filed on October 2. Jones v Dunlap, 20A57.
On October 2, the Illinois state appeals court refused to expedite Bixler v Illinois State Board of Elections. This was a lawsuit filed by Republicans to keep Bill Redpath off the ballot as the Libertarian nominee for U.S. House. The trial court had ruled in favor of Redpath, and the appeals court then refused to expedite the appeal, so Redpath is safely on the ballot. He is the only minor party or independent candidate for U.S. House in Illinois this year who survived a challenge.