The Michigan Secretary of State has not appealed to the Sixth Circuit in Esshaki v Whitman, the case over whether primary petition signature requirements should be cut by 50%. Although technically there is still time for the state to appeal, realistically there is not.
The U.S. District Court Judge denied the state’s request for reconsideration on Saturday, April 25, and the state has not since then filed anything in the case.
On April 24, Rocky De La Fuente dismissed his federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump and against all the state Republican Parties that acted to keep him from qualifying for presidential primary ballots in those states. De La Fuente v Trump, u.s. District Court, D.C., 1:19cv-3753.
On April 27, the Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear Warren v Griswold, 2020SA140. This is the case over whether the primary petition for statewide office, 10,500 signatures, should be eased in 2020 due to the health crisis. The lower state court had ruled that it should be lowered.
The Colorado Supreme Court wants Warren’s brief by April 30, Thursday.
Ballot Access News
April 2020 – Volume 35, Number 11
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On April 27, New York cancelled its Democratic presidential primary, even though it was set for June 23 and the state will hold primaries for office other than president that day.
There wasn’t going to be a presidential primary for any other parties in New York, because presidential primaries in New York aren’t held unless at least two candidates appear on the ballot. Although presidential candidates other than President Trump had petitioned for the Republican primary, the other Republican candidates had been disqualified because they didn’t submit delegate candidates in every U.S. House district. The Libertarian Party had wanted its own presidential primary, but none of the candidates who petitioned also presented slates of delegates in all districts. See this story. Thanks to Joe Burns for this news.
