This HarrisX Poll asked voters who they would vote for for president, if the 2016 election were to be re-done.
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On September 21, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a proposed initiative, amending the city charter of Toledo, should not be on the ballot, even though it had enough valid signatures. State ex rel Twitchell v Saferin, 2018-Ohio-3829. Four of the seven members of the Court write separately. It is clear that the Ohio law, governing procedures to use the initiative process to amend a city charter, are unclear and contradictory. The initiative had to do with environmental protection for Lake Erie. Here is the decision.
Quebec has a provincial election on Monday, October 1. According to this story, 18 parties are on the ballot, including one that advocates that Quebec leave Canada and join the United States.
On September 20, the Illinois gubernatorial nominees of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Conservative Parties debated each other. The debate is described in this National Public Radio news story.
The U.S. Supreme Court has put Citizens for Fair Representation v Padilla, 18-123, on its September 24 conference. This is the case in which plaintiffs argue that the population of California legislative districts are so huge that, effectively, ordinary Californians have no chance to communicate or interact with their state legislators. State Senators have almost 1,000,000 constituents, and Assemblymembers have almost 500,000.
The plaintiffs had asked for a 3-judge court. Initially the U.S. District Court said she was granting the motion for a 3-judge court. Then later she changed her mind, apparently because the chief judge of the Ninth Circuit told her not to do give the case a 3-judge court. Plaintiffs are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that it is not proper for the U.S. District Court Judge, who has presumably read the evidence and briefs, to let another judge (who presumably has not read the briefs or participated in any oral argument) to make this decision. This is a very arcane point.