On July 8, the Florida voters and voting rights groups who are trying to establish voting rights for ex-felons filed this application with the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. District Court had issued an injunction, letting ex-felons who cannot pay court costs, fines, and restitution, to register to vote anyway. Then Florida appealed to all the full-time judges of the Eleventh Circuit, who stayed the decision and set an August hearing date. Now the people who filed the case hope the U.S. Supreme Court will remove the stay.

On July 8, the League of Women Voters of the U.S. sued New York election officials, over the state’s policy of rejecting postal ballots. If the signature on the outer envelope of the ballot doesn’t appear to match the signature on the voter’s registration card, election officials discard the ballot, without asking the voter to verify the validity of the ballot. League of Women Voters of the U.S. v Kosinski, s.d., 1:20cv-5238.

Here is the Complaint, which says that New York rejects postal ballots at a higher rate than any other state.

There are two lawsuits pending over whether California should grant ballot access relief to presidential candidates who want to petition onto the ballot. They are in different U.S. District Courts, one in San Francisco, one in Los Angeles. Judges in both cases have asked the state to respond by July 10, Friday.

The case in Los Angeles, filed by Socialist Equality presidential candidate Joseph Kishore, will be heard on July 20. The case in San Francisco, filed by Constitution Party nominee Don Blankenship, doesn’t have a court date set yet.

The case in Los Angeles is Kishore v Newsom, 2:20cv-5859. The case in San Francisco is Blankenship v Newsom, 3:20cv-4479.