On July 17, Gloria La Riva, the presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism & Liberation, filed a federal lawsuit against the District of Columbia presidential petition requirement. The District requires the presidential nominees of unqualified parties, and independent presidential candidates, to submit over 5,000 valid signatures. But the D.C. law was changed earlier this year to lower the other partisan districtwide petitions from 3,000 signatures to 250 signatures, for 2020 only, due to the health crisis. It is puzzling why the law was not also eased for presidential petitions.

Here is the Complaint in La Riva v D.C. Board of Elections, 1:20cv-1937.

On July 16, the Oklahoma State Board of Elections held its usual drawing to determine the order of candidates on the November 2020 ballot. The Republican Party won, and all Republican nominees will be listed first. The Libertarian Party nominees will be second, and the Democrats on the third line. Below them will be the independent candidates.

On July 17, the Pennsylvania Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties appealed their ballot access case to the Third Circuit. Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania v Wolf, 20-2481. The issue is the difficulty of petitioning during the health crisis, and also the August 3 petition deadline. The U.S. District Court had denied all relief. The U.S. District Court admitted much petitioning time had been lost, but inexplicably did not even extend the deadline.