Wisconsin held primaries on August 14 for the Libertarian, Green, and Constitution Parties. However, the Wisconsin state elections office does not compile unofficial returns and disseminate them on its web page. The news media gather the returns for the Democratic and Republican Parties on election night, but they don’t do that for the minor party primaries, so we must wait until the state has its official returns to see any minor party primary results.

Vermont held a primary on August 14 for the Progressive Party, and the Vermont Secretary of State does post unofficial returns. However, all of the statewide candidates in the Progressive Party were write-in candidates in the party’s primary, and the write-ins haven’t been tallied yet.

On August 14, Republican leaders of the North Carolina legislature filed an appeal to the North Carolina State Court of Appeals, in the cases over whether judicial candidates who change parties within three months of filing for office may have their party label on the ballot.

On August 14, a U.S. District Court struck down a New Hampshire law dealing with mailed absentee ballots. The law says if the signature on the outer envelope appears not to match the signatures on the voter registration record, the absentee ballot shall be rejected, with no notice to that voter. Here is the decision in Saucedo v Gardner, 1:17cv-183. This was an ACLU case. The decision is by Judge Landya McCafferty, an Obama appointee.