The Arizona Daily Star, daily newspaper for Tucson, has this op-ed, criticizing Arizona ballot access requirements for minor parties. It focuses on the Green Party’s loss of qualified status. The op-ed does not say that the petition deadline for the party to get back on the ballot is in two days, and the party has not finished its petition, which requires approximately 37,000 signatures.

It is expected that the Green Party will sue the state over that extremely early petition deadline. The Green Party did have a lawsuit in 2014 over the deadline that existed that year, which was in February of the election year. That lawsuit failed because the attorney for the Green Party did not submit any evidence that the early deadline injured the party. He had assumed that he could win the case on precedents. The new lawsuit will not make that legal error.

The legislature moved the petition deadline from February of the election year, to November of the year before the election, early in 2019.

The Missouri Secretary of State’s web page lists presidential candidates who have filed in each party’s presidential primary. Filing started on November 26. So far no one has filed in the Green, Libertarian, or Constitution Party primaries.

The U.S. Supreme Court conference of December 13, 2019, will consider whether to hear De La Fuente v Padilla, and Chiafalo v State.  The De La Fuente lawsuit, 19-524, challenges the California independent presidential petition requirement of almost 200,000 signatures to be collected in 105 days.  The Chiafalo lawsuit, 19-465, is whether the Constitution permits the state to fine presidential electors $1,000 if they vote for someone other than the candidate who got the most popular votes in that state.

The Court won’t release information about its decisions until Monday, December 16, at the earliest.