On December 4, Colorado filed this Reply brief in Colorado Dept. of State v Baca, 19-518. This is the case over whether presidential electors are free to vote for any qualified candidate when they cast a vote in the electoral college. It is somewhat odd that Colorado felt the need to file a reply brief, because both sides want the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. Since the whole purpose of the briefs at this state concern whether the Court should hear the case, one would think there is no need for a Reply brief.

But Colorado wanted to again say that the case should revolve on whether the Democratic “disobedient” electors who brought the case had standing.

On December 3, the plaintiffs in Mecinas v Hobbs, 2:19cv-5547, filed this scathing criticism of the Arizona Secretary of State for requesting a delay of 90 days in the case. This is the lawsuit over the Arizona law that says the nominees of the party that won the last gubernatorial election are always listed first on the ballot.

The brief recounts the history of several other election law litigation in Arizona, and says the state has a pattern of trying to stall such cases. The brief asks the court not to grant the 3-month delay. Arizona has a Democratic Secretary of State, but a Republican Attorney General.

Great Britain holds a parliamentary election on December 12. In the average House of Commons district, there will be five parties on the ballot. See this wikipedia article. There are 650 seats and 3,429 candidates, so the average district has 5.3 candidates.

By contrast, in the United States in November 2018, the average U.S. House district only had 2.6 candidates on the ballot.