A bill in Nevada has been introduced that would move the petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties from June to May, and move the petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates from June to March. It is AB 82, requested by the Nevada Association of Counties and sponsored by the Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections.

In 1992, a U.S. District Court enjoined the June petition deadlines that were in effect that year, in Fulani v Lau, cv-N-92-535. The legislature then moved them to July, but some years later, moved them back to June.

Nevada also lost a deadline case in 1986, Libertarian Party of Nevada v Swackhamer, 638 F Supp 565, although the deadline struck down in that case was in April. Thanks to Jeanine Hansen for the news about AB 82.

New Jersey State Senator Dawn Addiego has changed her registration from Republican to Democratic. She represents part of Burlington County. She has been in the State Senate since 2010, and was last re-elected in 2017. She is not up until 2021. She is the third state legislator this month to make this switch. The others were in Maine and California. Thanks to Political Wire for this news.

Analyst Nate Silver doubts that any centrist independent presidential candidate hurts either major party more than the other. See the link to his tweet near the bottom of this Washington Post story.