On July 16, the Wisconsin Green Party filed this amicus curiae brief in United Wisconsin v Wisconsin Elections Commission, Dane Co. Circuit Court, 25-cv-1438.  The issue in the lawsuit is Wisconsin’s ban on fusion.  The Green Party brief takes pains to acknowledge that it has some sympathy with the United Wisconsin Party.  But the Green Party focuses on New York’s experience with fusion, and makes the case that, at least in New York, fusion has harmed minor parties that are independent of the two major parties.

The brief also says that Ranked Choice Voting is somewhat incompatible with fusion.  Thanks to Independent Political Report for the link.

In 2024, independent presidential candidate Cornel West sued Pennsylvania over the discriminatory treatment of presidential elector candidates.  Minor party and independent presidential candidates must obtain a notarized declaration of candidacy from each of their presidential elector candidates, and if even one elector candidate doesn’t submit the paperwork, the presidential candidate is kept off the ballot.  But the presidential elector candidates of parties that have 15% of the statewide registration need file no paperwork whatsoever.  Instead their parties simply write a letter to the state elections office, listing them.

Cornel West sued over this policy in 2024, and the case has been repeatedly delayed.  On July 31 all the deadlines for the trial briefs were extended again, and are now due in October.

Pennsylvania’s policy in 2024 injured not only Cornel West, but also the presidential nominees of the Constitution Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

on July 27, the Kansas Supreme Court refused to interfere, for now, with a trial court decision that keeps the 3-day grace period for postal ballots to arrive.  See this story.  The legislature earlier this year passed a bill requiring ballots to arrive no later than election day, but a state trial court had enjoined it.  See this story.