Utah State Senator Dan Thatcher has introduced SB 28. It deletes the ballot language added a few years ago that says when an independent candidate is on the ballot, the ballot must say that the candidate “does not qualify to be listed on the ballot as affiliated with a political party.”

When an independent candidate for the legislature in 2018 was on the ballot, she learned that many voters saws that ballot statement and felt the ballot was saying she was not qualified. She brought a federal lawsuit, which is on hold to see if the legislature this year will repeal that language.

Mark W. Turley is seeking the nomination of the Independent Party of Delaware for U.S. Senate. It is ballot-qualified but in 2018 did not have a single candidate for any partisan race. Assuming the party nominates him, it will be the party’s first congressional candidate since 2012.

Nevada State Senator Ben Kieckhefer (R-Nevada) is sponsoring initiative S-03-2020, to create a top-two system for all partisan offices except president. See this news story, which says that the head of the League of Women Voters of Southern Nevada supports the initiative. Ironically, when top-two was on the ballot in Oregon (twice) and in Washington, the state League in those states opposed the idea. Thanks to Michael Drucker for the link.