This People Magazine story says several individuals are expected to challenge Kanye West’s independent presidential petition.
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As previously noted, on July 20, a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles refused to give injunctive relief to Joseph Kishore for California ballot access relief. Kishore is the Socialist Equality Party presidential nominee and he wanted to use California’s independent presidential petition, which requires 196,964 signatures to be collected mid-April through early August.
On July 23, Don Blankenship, Constitution Party nominee, who has a parallel case in San Francisco, filed this Supplemental document explaining why the Kishore decision is flawed and why the judge in the northern district should not follow it. The supplemental document lists seven favorable ballot access precedents that the judge in Los Angeles ignored in her opinion.
This Newsweek story says that some mainstream polls are now including Jo Jorgensen and Howie Hawkins, and that they tend to show that Jorgensen is at 3% and Hawkins is at 2%.
On July 17, the proponents of three Arkansas statewide initiatives asked the State Supreme Court to rule that the paperwork they submitted, concerning their petitioners, is not flawed, and that the Secretary of State should proceed to check the validity of their signatures. Miller v Thurston, cv-20-454.
The Secretary of State had rejected three initiatives, without even checking their petitions, because the Secretary of State said their certification about their circulators was flawed. The law says proponents must submit a criminal records report, saying their petitioners have not been convicted of certain crimes. The proponents submitted paperwork saying they had done the criminal background checks. But the Secretary of State said the paperwork should have affirmatively declared that the circulators had not been convicted, instead of just saying that their records had been checked.
On July 22, the Ninth Circuit denied injunctive relief in the Arizona Democratic Party’s lawsuit on order of candidates on Arizona general election ballots. Macinas v Hobbs, 20-16301. Without relief, in almost all of Arizona’s counties, the Republican Party nominees will be on the top line. The case remains alive but will be decided after the 2020 election. The Democratic Party had asked for an order, requiring a random drawing to determine the top line.