The group Getmorechoice.org is interested in circulating an initiative petition in California for a top-four system, the system used by Alaska. The initiative would be on the ballot in November 2028.
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On May 21, four California minor parties filed an amended complaint in Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, n.d., 3:24cv-8308. See it here. It follows the judges instructions to focus on the constitutionality of the top-two system as it exists in presidential election years, when there is no route to the general election ballot for candidates who file later than December of the year before the election. Also it focuses on the issue of whether members of unqualified parties can have their party label next to their names on primary ballots.
On May 21, Veterans for All Voters asked a U.S. District Court to let it file this amicus curiae brief in Hunt v State, n.d., 2:25cv-200. This is the lawsuit filed last year by the Texas Republican Party. The party believes the First Amendment should be interpreted to let the Texas Republican Party have a closed primary. The Texas Attorney General won’t defend Texas’ open primary law, but the Texas Secretary of State has been defending the existing law.
The Texas Republican Party won’t agree to let Veterans for All Voters file the amicus, so the judge will need to decide whether to let the amicus be filed. The amicus points out that Texas doesn’t have registration by party.
On May 21, Mike Duggan, former Mayor of Detroit, dropped his independent candidacy for Governor of Michigan. See this story.
In 2025, the Democratic National Committee asked political consultant Paul Rivera to compile an “autopsy” on why the party lost the Democratic presidential election, but the party then refused to release it for public reading. However, the report has now been made public. See this story. Apparently the report says nothing about the party’s attack on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s independent presidential campaign. Democratic Party officials challenged his ballot access in over a dozen states, and also worked to keep him out of the June 2024 presidential debate, and even denied him Secret Service protection. This motivated Kennedy to withdraw from the race and endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump.