Florida held primaries on August 28. Although technically all qualified parties nominate by primary, no primary is held for parties with no contests. Therefore, there are only Democratic and Republican results. Here is a link. Rocky De La Fuente, running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate against Governor Rick Scott, polled 11.4%.
On August 28, Oklahoma held runoff primaries for the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian Parties. This is the first time the Libertarian Party has ever had a runoff primary in Oklahoma. Here is a link to the results. The Libertarian results, which take up a very small part of the returns because only Governor had a runoff, are sandwiched between the Republican results and the Democratic results.
The Connecticut state court judge who adjudicated the dispute over the legitimate officers of the Independent Party wrote a very comprehensive opinion. It has the entire history of the party. The case is Independent Party of Connecticut State Central Committee v Merrill, superior court, Hartford, HHD cv-16-6071180-S. Here is a link to the decision. Thanks to Michael Telesca for the link.
Ballot Access News
August 1, 2018 – Volume 34, Number 3
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On August 28, the Florida State Court of Appeals, First District, restored Ryan Torrens to the Democratic primary ballot. He is a candidate for Attorney General. Last week a trial court had “removed” him from the ballot. The primary is today, Tuesday, August 28. The lower court couldn’t physically remove his name from the ballots, but ordered that his votes could not be counted. But now they will be counted. See this story.
