Patrick Anderson, the Iowa independent candidate for Attorney General who has backed by many leaders of the Republican Party, appears unlikely to have successfully collected 1,500 signatures by the deadline, according to this story.
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The Independent Party of Connecticut held its statewide nominating convention on Sunday, August 26. It nominated the entire Republican slate for statewide office, so those individuals will be listed twice on the November ballot, and voters who want to vote for them can do so either on the Republican line or the Independent Party line. See this story.
The Hill has this article about the North Carolina legislature’s struggle with the Governor over makeup of the State Election Board, and also another struggle over judicial appointments. On August 27 the legislature will probably finalize the wording of the state ballot measures that are intended to be on the November ballot.
ABC News writer Roey Hadar has this revealing article on how Florida Governors have utter discretion to decide which ex-felons may have their voting rights restored, and which may not. He uses an example of an applicant who had voted illegally, but who told the Governor at the clemency hearing that he had voted for the Governor. The Governor laughed and then restored his voting rights. In another example, an applicant was denied because the Governor was dismayed that he had received traffic tickets.
Iowa held its primaries June 5, and no Republican filed for Attorney General. Now, though, some Iowa Republicans want to get a candidate on the November ballot. They are attempting to complete an independent petition for Patrick Anderson. See this story. Anderson may try to use the ballot label “GOP”. Iowa lets petitioning candidates choose a party label if it not too similar to the name of a qualified party.