The California Green Party has told the California Secretary of State that the party has approved Howie Hawkins and Dario Hunter for the March 2020 presidential primary ballot.

Although candidates can get on a California presidential primary ballot without party approval, it is not easy, in the case of California’s minor parties.  An alternate method to get on a California minor party presidential primary is to show that the candidate is already on the presidential primary ballot of some other state.  But the other states that have minor party presidential primaries tend to have later filing periods.  The California requirement must be satisfied by November 26.  The other states with Green Party presidential primaries don’t even let candidates file that early.

On November 13, the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in Tedards v Ducey, 19-16308, the case over when Arizona must hold an election to fill John McCain’s Senate seat.  McCain died in August 2018 and the Arizona government said the next election for that election would be November 2020.  Some voters sued, arguing the election needed to be earlier than that.  One can hear the 42-minute argument at this link.

Fairvote has published this essay by Julie Hochsztein, advocating that the U.S. Supreme Court hear De La Fuente v Padilla, the case over California’s independent presidential petition requirement.  It requires almost 200,000 signatures, to be collected in 105 days.  No one has complied with the law since 1992.