U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Torresen, an Obama appointee, will hear Alexander v Dunlap, 1:18cv-220, on Friday, June 8, at 2 p.m. This is the case in which Max Linn, a candidate in the Maine Republican primary for U.S. Senate, hopes to obtain an order letting his votes be counted. He is already on the ballot. After the towns checked his petitions and determined he had enough valid signatures, the Maine Secretary of State reversed that finding. But, by then, Linn’s name was already on the primary ballots. The Secretary of State ordered that signs be posted in each polling place, saying votes for Linn won’t be counted.

The New Hampshire primaries are on September 11. According to this story, there will probably be a contested Libertarian Party primary for Governor. It is likely that both Jiletta Jarvis and Aaron Day will seek the party’s nomination.

The Libertarian Party also had its own primary in 1992, 1994, and 1996, but there was no contest for the gubernatorial nomination in those years. New Hampshire elects a Governor every two years. The party needs to poll 4% for Governor this year to retain its qualified status.

According to this Politico story, the Democratic Party is likely to change its rules this week, and provide that superdelegates can’t vote for president on the first ballot, at national presidential conventions. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link. Superdelegates are persons who did not get elected in a presidential primary or caucus, but who in the past are still entitled to be voting delegates at national conventions.