Georgia holds a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 5th district, on Tuesday, September 29. Filing closed on July 31. Anyone can get on the ballot without a petition, by paying the filing fee of $5,220. Here is the list of seven candidates. They include five Democrats, one Libertarian, and one independent. No Republican filed. The seat is empty because of the death of John Lewis. Use the link, and then input “September 29” in the question about election date.

If no one gets a majority on September 29, there will be a runoff on December 1. The new Democratic nominee for this district, Nikema Williams (who was chosen by a Democratic Party meeting) chose not to run in the special election.

On August 6, the Mayor of Washington, D.C., signed bill B23-0864. For 2020 only, it lowers the presidential petition from 5,007 signatures to 250 signatures.

The petition deadline was August 5. As far as is known, the only presidential petitions submitted were for Gloria La Riva and Brock Pierce. The District has four ballot-qualified parties: Democratic, Republican, Green, and Libertarian.

D.C. had already lowered the other district wide petitions to 250 earlier this year, but the earlier change did not include presidential petitions. La Riva filed a federal lawsuit and the city chose to settle the matter with the new legislation.

August 3 was the Pennsylvania deadline for minor party and independent candidate petitions. Both the Green Party and the Libertarian Party submitted more than twice as many signatures as were required. The requirement was 5,000. Libertarians submitted slightly over 10,000, and Greens submitted approximately 15,000.