On June 22, Randy Flowers, an independent candidate for the Illinois 17th U.S. House district, filed this brief in his ballot access case. Flowers v Illinois State Board of Elections, 4:26cv-4062. Flowers is challenging the 5% petition requirement.
This news story describes the New Mexico Forward Party’s attempts to nominate candidates this year.
The ballot-qualified Libertarian Party of New Mexico managed to file for two partisan offices this year. Both are for county office in Los Alamos County. See this story. The party says it would have other candidates this year, except that its funds were depleted after defending itself in federal court against the national party’s trademark lawsuit.
On June 12, Florida Republicans filed a lawsuit in state court to remove Addison Liberty Patrick, a Libertarian, who is running for Jacksonville City Council-at-Large. Republican Executive Committee of Duval County v Patrick, Circuit Court, Duval County, 16-2026-CA-004155-AXXX-MA. The lawsuit says he hasn’t been a registered member of the Libertarian Party for the last year.
In response, Patrick argues that the law does not relate to elections like the Jacksonville election. The Jacksonville is really more like a non-partisan election, except that party labels are printed on the ballot showing the candidate’s party membership. UPDATE: the case has a hearing on Wednesday, July 1.
On the evening of June 26, an Alaska state trial court put Daniel J. Sullivan back on the primary ballot as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senator. See this story. There will be an appeal to the State Supreme Court.
Here is the 32-page opinion.
