Ohio holds a special U.S. House election for the 12th district on August 7. The polls closed at 7:30 p.m. Ohio time.
The Secretary of State’s web page has unofficial returns.
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On August 6, a state trial court in Raleigh, North Carolina, set a hearing date for Monday, August 13, in the lawsuits over whether the state can prevent two judicial candidates from having their party label on the ballot. The judge also denied the state’s motion to dismiss the case. See this story.
One of the cases is on behalf of a judicial candidate for local judicial office, Rebecca Edwards. Her case is Edwards v North Carolina Bipartisan State Board of Elections, Wake County, 18cvs-9748. UPDATE: The State Supreme Court candidate who is fighting for his own party label, Chris Anglin, has the transcript of the federal case in which the Democratic Party unsuccessfully sued to stop the existing law on party labels. See it here.
Arizona is one of eleven states that lets state income taxpayers send a small monetary contribution to the party of the taxpayer’s choice. Ballot Access News has been tracking contributions to each party, for these states, starting in 2000.
Arizona taxpayers who used the political party checkoff during the first six months of 2018 seem unusually supportive of the Libertarian and Green Parties, relative to the recent past. These small money amounts increase the amount of state income tax payment from the taxpayer; they do not subtract any money from the state treasury.
The 2018 amount so far for the Libertarian Party is $1,008. This is not a massive amount, but it is the highest for the party since 2010. The 2017 Libertarian amount was only $382.
The 2018 amount so far for the Green Party is $796. This is the highest for the Green Party since 2002. The Green total for 2017 was only $326.
By contrast, the 2018 amount for the Republican Party is $7,562, down from the Republican Party’s 2017 total of $10,056.
The 2018 amount for the Democratic Party is $12,816, down from that party’s 2017 total of $15,199.
The September 1 2018 print issue of BAN will have the data for all the states.
On August 6, Rocky De La Fuente submitted his reply brief to the Ninth Circuit in De La Fuente v Padilla, 17-56668. This is the lawsuit that challenges the California law that required him to submit 178,039 valid signatures in 2016, to be on the ballot. Here is brief.
On August 6, the deadline, independent gubernatorial candidate Greg Orman submitted over 10,000 signatures to run for Governor of Kansas. The legal requirement is 5,000 signatures. See this story, which says that Orman relied partly on paid circulators. Thanks to Gene Berkman and Shawn Griffiths for the news.