On August 23, Gail Fenumiai, Director of the Alaska Elections Division, sent a letter to Scott Kohlhaas, Libertarian Party nominee for state house, district 16. It says she won’t print “Libertarian” next to his name on the ballot, even though Alaska Statute 15.25.180 says independent petitions may contain the name of the “political group, if any”, and even though 15.25.190 says, “The director shall place the names and the political group affiliation of persons who have been properly nominated by petition on the general election ballot.”

The letter does not make reference to any Alaska election law.

The Kohlhaas petition identified him as the Libertarian Party candidate, and Kohlhaas is a registered Libertarian.

The director also says she will no longer print the party affiliation of persons nominated by qualified parties on the ballot. Instead she will only print the name of the party that nominated them. In 2018, the ballot contained both pieces of information. This year the Democratic nominees for U.S. Senate and U.S. House are both registered independents, and the candidates desire that the ballot reflect their independent affiliation. Here is a news story about removing the affiliation of the two Democratic nominees.

The Rhode Island to place Howie Hawkins on the ballot failed to gather the needed 1,000 signatures. For a while the campaign hoped to be able to re-validate enough signatures, but in the end it seems only 897 signatures were valid.

On September 14, the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Wisconsin Elections Commission that Howie Hawkins should not be on the ballot. The decision does not decide whether he was removed properly or not, but merely says he waited too long to sue, and it would cause too much disruption to put him on the ballot now. Hawkins v Wisconsin Elections Commission, 2020AP-1488-OA. Here is the 50-page decision. The vote was 4-3.