On August 29, New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, said she will put a straight-ticket device back on New Mexico general election ballots. Her office put out a press release announcing the change. She did not hold any public hearing on the idea.

States that have repealed straight ticket devices in the past fifty years are Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas (effective 2019), and Wisconsin. Michigan repealed its device in 2016, but a U.S. District Court recently struck down the Michigan repeal.

Besides Michigan and New Mexico, the only states that still have straight-ticket devices are Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Utah.

August 28 was the deadline for New Mexico candidates to withdraw from the November election. Mick Rich, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, did not withdraw, so the New Mexico U.S. Senate race will be a three-candidate election. On August 28, U.S. Senator Rand Paul had endorsed Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee, but that had no effect on Rich.

Arizona held primaries on August 28 for the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Parties. Here is a link. Almost all of the Libertarian and Green candidates were write-ins, and there are no write-in results yet, and won’t be for several weeks.