COFOE will hold a board meeting on Sunday, August 18, at 1:30 pm, at the law office of James Clymer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  COFOE was established in 1985.  It is a very loose coalition of most of the nation’s nationally-organized minor parties, plus groups that care about how minor parties and independent candidates are treated in the United States.

COFOE’s latest project has been filing an amicus curiae case in the U.S. Supreme Court in Hall v Merrill, the only ballot access case now pending in that court.  It arose in Alabama, case number 18-1362.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue the gerrymander decisions on June 21.  The Court will release opinions next on Monday, June 24.

On June 20, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed LD 1626, which sets up presidential primaries in Maine.  They do not involve ranked choice voting.  The primary is voluntary and parties must decide whether to use them.  Parties also must decide whether or not to let independents vote in their presidential primaries.  Thanks to Josh Putnam for this news.