On August 16, Michigan’s Secretary of State filed this brief in Graveline v Johnson, e.d., 2:18cv-12354. This is the case in which Chris Graveline, an independent candidate for Attorney General, challenges the number of signatures and the petition deadline. No one has completed the Michigan statewide independent petition since it was created in 1988, except for two independent candidates for president, Ross Perot in 1992 and Ralph Nader in 2004.
Unite America, formerly called Centrist Project, holds its first national meeting August 17-19 in Denver. Here is the agenda.
Congressmember Grace Meng (D-New York) has introduced HJR 138, which would lower the voting age to sixteen. See this story. Thanks to Electionline for the news.
Meng represents central Queens, and was first elected to Congress in 2012.
On August 10, the final brief was filed in the Washington State Supreme Court in Guerra v Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings, 95347-3. Here is a link. The case challenges the constitutionality of Washington state’s treatment of three Democratic presidential electors in 2016. They voted for persons other than Hillary Clinton in the electoral college, and the state then fined each of them.
The Indiana Secretary of State, Connie Lawson, is running for another four-year term this November. Some Indiana voters have challenged her ability to do so, because of the state’s term limits law. See this story by Steve Goodale of News Growl.
