The Orange County Weekly has this article about the bill in the California legislature to force the American Independent Party to change its name.
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Bonnie Kristian, contributing editor to The Week, writes here that she believes Justin Amash could be re-elected to the U.S. House in 2020 as an independent. Her column does not mention the straight-ticket device, nor the fact that no independent has ever been elected to congress from Michigan, nor to either house of the Michigan legislature. However, that is partly because the Michigan election law did not allow for independent candidates until 1976.
The Working Families will endorse one Democrat for president later this year, but in the meantime it has announced that the endorsement will go to one of these six candidates: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Bill de Blasio, or Kamala Harris. See this press release, which only relates to West Virginia.
See this story, which says that the story is true for the entire Working Families Party, not just the West Virginia WFP.
On July 5, a state trial court in Arizona ruled that the Green Party is ballot-qualified within the city of Tucson for the 2019 election. Arizona law says that a party that wins qualified status keeps that status for two elections. Yet Tucson election officials had said they did not think the Green Party was ballot-qualified for 2019, even though the party had earned status in the 2017 city election.
The judge wrote, “The City of Tucson and its clerk abused their discretion and acted arbitrarily and capriciously by not including the Green Party as a political party qualified for the August 27, 2019 primary election ballot.”
Between the evening of July 4, and the afternoon of July 5, the Ballot Access News website was not working. People who attempted to see the page were told they had to enter a password. This was a technical glitch; there has been no attempt to restrict readership to anyone at this web page.
As of 2 p.m. California time, the comments are blocked, but that should be fixed by 4 p.m. California time.