On September 14, U.S. District Court Judge Irene C. Berger, an Obama appointee, issued an opinion in West v Warner, s.d., 2:20cv-570. West had submitted approximately 14,000 signatures to be an independent presidential candidate in West Virginia, but election officials found he didn’t have as many as 7,145 valid; instead only about 6,400 were valid.

West sued to say that the state must give him a chance to re-validate signatures. But the Judge said if he was concerned that the checking process wouldn’t be accurate or fair, he should have submitted his petitions on a piece-meal basis. Instead he turned all of them in on the August 3 petition deadline. It is true that West Virginia will permit petitions to be submitted in stages. The judge also said he didn’t submit any evidence of any particular signature that had been unfairly rejected. Here is the 10-page opinion.

South Carolina has a U.S. Senate election this year, and has seven U.S. House districts. The only candidates on the ballot this year for either house of Congress, other than Republicans and Democrats. are Constitution Party nominees. The Constitution Party is running for U.S. Senate, and has three nominees for U.S. House.

On August 29, the New York Conservative Party chose President Donald J. Trump as its presidential nominee. This means he will be listed twice on the New York, and voters who want to vote for him can do so under the Republican label or the Conservative label. The convention was virtual.

In 2016, Trump was also the Conservative Party nominee. As a Conservative nominee got 291,947 votes, 3.81%.