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Arizona is holding a special election for the vacant Seventh District U.S. House seat on September 23, 2025. Each qualified party had its own special primary on July 15, 2025. The Green Party and the No Labels Party each nomianted someone by write-in vote in their own primaries. The Libertarian Party also had a write-in candidate in its primary, but the person who got the most votes in the Libertarian primary can’t be on the September 23 ballot because the rules are different for the Libertarian Party.
The Green Party and the No Labels Party each petitioned in 2024, so they are considered “new” parties. “New” parties can nominate by write-in very easily. Whoever gets the most votes in their primaries is nominated, regardless of how few write-ins they received. The Green Party winner got 42 write-ins and the No Labels Party candidate got one write-in.
But the Libertarian Party is not considered a new party, because it has been continuously qualified since 2000. So write-in candidates in its primary need a large number of write-ins to be nominated.
Here are the election results for the July 15, 2025 primary.
On August 7, U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee, converted CASA Inc. v Trump, 8:25cv-201, into a class action. This is the birthright citizenship lawsuit that the U.S. Supreme Court had been involved in. In this lawsuit, the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down nationwide injunctions issued by U.S. District Courts unless either the case has been filed by a state, or the case is a class action.
On remand, the U.S. District Court converted the case into a class action and then again enjoined the Presidential order on birthright citizenship. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news.
On August 5, U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane, an Obama appointee, issued an opinion in Judicial Watch v Griffin-Valade, 6:24cv-1783. The issue is whether Oregon is failing to keep its voter registration list up-to-date, something each state is required to do under the 1993 federal Voter Registration law. The judge ruled that the Constitution Party is the only plaintiff that has standing to carry on the lawsuit. The other organization in the lawsuit, Judicial Watch, does not have standing, according to the decision. The case will now proceed to the merits.
The judge agreed that the Constitution Party is harmed by inaccurate voter registration records. All qualified parties in Oregon must keep registration of at least one-tenth of 1% and must pass the 1% vote test as well, to stay on the ballot. Parties that have registration of one-third of 1% don’t need to worry about the vote test.
Last year, two of the top-four finishers in the Alaska primary for U.S. House withdrew after the primary, so the Alaska Elections Division allowed the fifth-place and sixth-place finishers to qualify for the November ballot. Afterwards, the Democratic Party of Alaska sued to block the sixth-place finisher. If the Democratic Party had won the case, there would only have been three candidates for U.S. House on the November ballot instead of four.
But the party lost the case last year. The Alaska Supreme Court had issued a one-sentence order last year, providing for four candidates, and had said it would explain its reasoning later. Finally, on July 25, 2025, the Supreme Court explained its decision. See that here. Alaska Democratic Party v Beecher, S-19231.
The reason the Democratic Party didn’t want the sixth-place finisher on the ballot was that he was a Democrat. The Democratic Party didn’t want two Democrats on the November ballot, even though Alaska has ranked choice voting. And it is true that most of the November voters who voted for the sixth-place finisher as their first choice did not go on to give their second-choice vote to the mainstream Democratic candidate.