Darcy Richardson, Reform Party nominee for Governor of Florida, has chosen Nancy Argenziano for his Lieutenant Governor running mate. She is a former Republican state legislator. See the campaign web page. The announcement was made on August 30.
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On August 29, the U.S. government filed this brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Segovia v U.S., 17-1463. This is the case in which the Seventh Circuit upheld the system in which residents of American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands may continue to vote absentee in Illinois, if they lived in Illinois before moving to those U.S. possessions. But former voters of Illinois who move to Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, or Puerto Rico may not.
The U.S. government initially said it wouldn’t bother to file a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, but then the U.S. Supreme Court requested a response. The government says the plaintiffs lack standing.
The Michigan Secretary of State will ask the Sixth Circuit to remove Chris Graveline from the November 2018 ballot. He is the candidate for Attorney General who won injunctive relief against the ballot access law on August 27. He is on the ballot now. See this story.
Arizona held primaries on August 28. The incumbent Secretary of State, Michele Reagan, lost the Republican primary by more than two-to-one, to businessman Steve Gaynor, who vastly outspent her. It is very rare for incumbent Secretaries of State to lose a primary.
On August 28, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg issued an order in Curling v Kemp, n.d., 1:17cv-2989. This is the lawsuit over whether Georgia may continue to use vote-counting machines that do not leave an audit trail. The 3-page order clears away all procedural objections to the lawsuit, and sets another oral argument for Monday, September 17, on the question of whether she should issue an injunction against the existing machines.