Lou Jacobson has this summary of advances for ranked choice voting in 2020. Massachusetts voters will vote on whether to use RCV in November 2020. If it passes, Massachusetts will join Maine as states that use it for partisan statewide office.
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued no opinions on July 2, but will do so on July 6. The presidential elector decisions are still pending.
Level the Playing Field expects to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its presidential debates case, Level the Playing Field v Federal Election Commission. There is no expectation that the case will move quickly enough to affect the 2020 presidential election.
On June 30, the Alaska Division of Elections filed this brief in Alaska Libertarian Party v Fenumiai, 3:20cv-127. This is the lawsuit over ballot access relief for minor party presidential petitions, due to the health emergency. The state’s brief says that several independent candidates for the legislature (all of whom needed fewer than 100 signatures) managed to petition this year. Presidential petitions require 3,212 signatures.
On Jyly 1, the Idaho Governor Brad Little filed notice of appeal in Reclaim Idaho v Little, 20-35584. This is the case in which the U.S. District Court had ordered a 48-day extension for the deadline for statewide initiatives in Idaho.