On August 6, the Princeton Electoral Innovation Lab submitted this amicus in Hagopian v Dunlap, the federal lawsuit in Maine over the constitutionality of ranked-choice voting. The Lab amicus supports ranked-choice voting.
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The Colorado Secretary of State website now lists candidates for the general election, including presidential candidates. The deadline for candidates of unqualified parties to get on the ballot has passed, and thirteen candidates qualified by paying $1,000.
In addition, Colorado has seven qualified parties, and their presidential nominees will be on the ballot with no filing fee. Not all of them are on the website yet.
The seven qualified parties are: Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Unity, and Approval Voting.
The candidates who qualified by paying the fee, in alphabetical order, are: Brian Carroll (American Solidarity), Mark Charles (independent), Phil Collins (Prohibition), Rocky De La Fuente (Alliance), Dario Hunter (Progressive), Princess Jacob-Fambro (independent), Alyson Kennedy (Socialist Workers), Joseph Kishore (Socialist Equality), Kyle Kopitke (Independent American), Gloria La Riva (Socialism & Liberation), Joe McHugh (independent), Brock Pierce (independent), and Kanye West (independent).
The website also lists declared write-in candidates.
On August 7, Joseph Kishore, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate, voluntarily dismissed his federal lawsuit against the California independent presidential candidate petition requirement, as applied during the health crisis. Kishore v Newsom. Two days earlier, the Ninth Circuit had refused to expedite his appeal. Also, on July 27, the Ninth Circuit had also voted not to expedite the appeal. The U.S. District Court had denied injunctive relief earlier in July.
On August 1, the Revolutionary Communist Party issued a press release, calling on U.S. voters to vote for Joe Biden as a means to defeat President Donald Trump. The Revolutionary Communist Party has never run its own nominees for public office, nor has it ever before made a recommendation as to whom people should support.
On August 8, the Alabama Libertarian Party executive committee voted to appeal the party’s lawsuit over access to the list of registered voters. The U.S. District Court had upheld the state’s policy of giving the list free to the qualified parties, but not to unqualified parties that are petitioning. The U.S. District Court decision contradicts a summary affirmance of the U.S. Supreme Court that is perfectly on-point, Socialist Workers Party v Rockefeller. The U.S. District Court decision also contradicts every lower court precedent on the same issue.