Some individuals who had hoped to run for Georgia Supreme Court have sued the state for cancelling the election they expected to run in.
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The Virginia Green Party has chosen B. Sidney Smith for president, and Cheri Honkala for vice-president, for purposes of petitioning for 2020. Virginia law allows stand-ins. When the actual Green Party nominees are known, Smith and Honkala will withdraw and be replaced by the actual nominees.
On February 28, the Virginia legislature passed HB 214, which legalizes out-of-state circulators. The Senate originally defeated the measure on a tie vote, but then the same day reconsideration was granted and the Senate passed it 21-18. This is the first bill that improves ballot access to have passed in any state legislature so far this year.
On February 27, the Virginia legislature passed HB 1103, which lets localities use ranked choice voting for their own officers if they wish.
On March 5, the Texas Democratic Party filed a lawsuit to require the state to restore the straight-ticket device. The legislature had repealed it in 2018, effective 2020. Bruni v Hughs, s.d., 5:20cv-35. Here is the Complaint. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo, an Obama appointee.
The only precedent for this issue is from Michigan. After the legislature repealed the straight-ticket device, the Democratic Party sued to retain it. A U.S. District Court agreed with the Democratic Party, but the Sixth Circuit reversed, and said nothing in the U.S. Constitution requires a state to have a straight-ticket device.
Later, though, Michigan voters passed an initiative, which restored the straight-ticket device and made several other unrelated election law changes. Therefore Michigan still has a straight-ticket device, even though the courts said Michigan was free to abolish it if it wished to.