The West Virginia Republican Party recently changed the rules for its 2020 presidential primary. Formerly it was possible for candidates who did not poll the most votes to win some delegates. The new rules provide that whomever places first receives all the delegates. See this Frontloading HQ story.
The Libertarian Party petition for ballot access in the upcoming special election for State House, 42nd district, has been rejected. The party was initially told it was 19 signatures short. It found 30 signatures that it believed had been erroneously rejected. The state accepted six signatures. It said evidence about the remaining signatures was submitted too late. See this story.
All of this will be evidence in the pending lawsuit over whether the state must give a free list of the registered voters to unqualified parties that are petitioning. That case is now undergoing discovery.
On September 18, the Montana Green Party filed this brief in U.S. District Court, in the party’s ballot access lawsuit. It challenges the strangely unequal distribution requirement for party petitions, and the early petition deadline. The case arose in 2018, after the party’s petition was rejected for not complying with the distribution requirement.
Aaron Lewis, a publisher and an independent candidate for Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, in the November 2019 election, as changed his voter registration from “Democratic” to “Libertarian”. See this story. However, it is too late for him to change his partisan label on the ballot.
On September 18, Level the Playing Field, the Green Party, and the Libertarian Party, filed this opening brief in Level the Playing Field v FEC, in the DC circuit. This is the case that concerns presidential debates in the general election.
