Filing has closed for the May 2020 Nebraska primaries. Mark Elsworth, somewhat to his surprise, is the default Democratic Party nominee for U.S. House, 3rd district. No other person filed in the Democratic primary for that seat. So it seems inevitable that he will be the Democratic nominee, even though Nebraska does permit write-ins in primaries.

The Third District is the most rural part of Nebraska, including the western two-thirds of the state.

As a result, Elsworth will not be the presidential nominee of the Legal Marijuana Now Party. Instead the party presidential nominee will be Rudy Reyes.

Effective March 12, the U.S. Supreme Court Building is closed to the public. The court did not say whether or not any oral arguments will be postponed, however.

On March 11, Tennessee HB 2580 passed the House Election Campaign Finance Subcommittee on a voice vote. It now goes to the full Local Committee. It cuts the number of signatures for a new party from 2.5% of the last gubernatorial vote cast (currently 56,083 signatures) to one-half of 1% (11,216). It also eases the vote test, which is now 5% for any statewide race. The new vote test would be 1% for each particular office, so if a party got 1% for president, then it would be on the ballot automatically for president in the next election. Currently the only state in which the vote test for party retention is office-by-office is Connecticut.

The sponsor is Representative Bud Hulsey (R-Kingsport).