On Augst 31, a U.S. District Court put Aaron Day on the New Hampshire ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate. Here is the opinion, which is only two pages. The opinion is short because all it says is that the earlier decision of the U.S. Magistrate is affirmed. Day is a libertarian activist who is running as an Independent. He had won in front of the U.S. magistrate earlier in August, when the magistrate recommended that Day is entitled to injunctive relief.

This is only the second time that New Hampshire has lost a ballot access case in federal court. The first time was in 2020, when a U.S. District Court said it was unconstitutional for the state to maintain its full petition requirements given the covid epidemic.

Even though a New Jersey statute requiring NJ petitioners to be state residents for primary elections was found to be unconstitutional in a prior litigation, and even though a statute requiring general election petitioners to be NJ residents had not been enforced for a long time, and even though the State of New Jersey gave Legiua “problematic advice,” she was still denied a Preliminary Injunction by US District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi, a Biden appointee.

It was the Republican Party that stimulated the effort to keep Legiua off the ballot. The New Jersey Seventh District US House race involves incumbent Republican Thomas Kean, who was recently absent from Congress for four months but returned to the US House on June 30, 2026 and explained that he had been treated for depression.

Here is the opinion which says the plaintiff has been wrong. It also says the Court is not reaching the constitutional issue because the case was already in state court.

You can at least read part of the story on politicopro.com. This is important, because if Hochul earns at least 2% of the total vote for Governor on the Working Families Party line, the WFP will remain a ballot qualified party in the State of New York.