Filing for the Colorado presidential primaries closed on December 9. The Democratic ballot will have 17 candidates; the Republican ballot will have seven. See the list in this news story.
Democrats are Bennet, Biden, Bloomberg, Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Delaney, Gabbard, Klobuchar, Patrick, Sanders, Steyer, Warren, Wells, Williamson, and Yang.
Republicans are Andini, De La Fuente, Istvan, Matern, Trump, Walsh, and Weld.
Seventeen Democrats will appear on the March 2020 Texas Democratic presidential primary: Michael Bennet, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Rocky De La Fuente III (son), John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Deval Patrick, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, Robby Wells, Marianne Williamson, and Andrew Yang. Thanks to Jim Riley for this list.
On December 9, the Arizona Libertarian Party filed this cert petition in the U.S. Supreme Court in Arizona Libertarian Party v Hobbs. This is the case over ballot access for members of a small qualified party that is not in its first four years on the ballot. In 2015, the Republican majority in the Arizona legislature passed a law that singles out the Libertarian Party and makes it virtually impossible for any Libertarian to get himself or herself on the Libertarian primary ballot. The same law did not apply to the Green Party, or to any party that is in its first four years on the ballot. UPDATE: the case number is 19-757. The state’s response is due January 13, 2020.
Because Arizona forces all qualified parties to nominate by primary, this meant that no Arizona Libertarians could get on the ballot for congress or partisan state office in both 2016 and 2018. Yet the Ninth Circuit upheld it earlier this year. The U.S. Supreme Court has never before had a case on petitions for access to a primary ballot.
Filing for major party presidential primaries in Texas closed on December 9. This news story mentions the seven candidates who qualified for the Republican ballot: Rocky De La Fuente, Bob Ely, Zoltan Istvan, Matthew Matern, President Donald Trump, Joe Walsh, and Bill Weld. Candidates in this primary needed either a filing fee of $5,000, or 4,500 signatures.
On December 9, the New York Libertarian and Green Parties held a joint conference to say they will sue if New York state goes ahead and makes the definition of “political party” more stringent. See this story.
UPDATE: see this New York Daily News story.
