On July 27, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed SB 3. This is the bill that says that even though judicial candidates have their party label on the ballot in November (even though there are no primaries and no party nominees), no one can have a label if he or she switched parties in the three months before the filing deadline.
Here is the veto message. It is expected that the legislature will override his veto. The Republican majority in the legislature passed this bill because without it, there will be two candidates labeled “Republican” on the November 2018 ballot for one State Supreme Court race, and only one with the label “Democrat”.

David Brooks of the New York Times writes that an independent presidential candidate, or the candidate of a new party, ought to run for president in 2020 on a platform of decreasing the power of the federal government and boosting the power of state and especially regional government. Thanks to Jim Hedges for the link.

Ballot Access News
July 1, 2018 – Volume 34, Number 2

1. MAINE VOTERS AGAIN PASS RANKED CHOICE VOTING
2. NEBRASKA WIN
3. INDEPENDENT VOTER PROJECT NOW FAVORS CHANGING CALIFORNIA TOP-TWO LAW
4. SUPREME COURT ON GERRYMANDERING
5. CALIFORNIA AGAIN MISINFORMS COURT ABOUT BALLOT ACCESS IN OTHER STATES
6. INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL ACCESS AS A PERCENTAGE OF REGISTRATION
7. NORTH CAROLINA MOVES PRIMARY FROM MAY TO MARCH
8. CALIFORNIA PRIMARY
9. MONTANA GREENS STILL WAITING
10. SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN CLOSED PRIMARY IDEA PASSES
11. SUPREME COURT NEWS
12. MAINE REPUBLICANS LOSE LAWSUIT
13. ALASKA LEGISLATOR LEAVES REPUBLICAN PARTY
14. DEMOCRATIC PARTY SETS 2020 NATIONAL CONVENTION DATES
15. CALIFORNIA GREEN PARTY JUDGE
16. CALIFORNIA LIBERTARIAN QUALIFIES FOR RUN-OFF FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR
17. LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO, WILL USE RANKED CHOICE VOTING
18. OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS GREEN PARTY HAS 7,353 MEMBERS
19. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL