Tenth Circuit Agrees with District Court that Colorado Opponents of Congressman Lamborn Can’t Intervene

Posted on by May 1, 2018
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A U.S. District Court in Colorado is currently weighing the constitutionality of Colorado’s ban on out-of-state circulators. The case has been brought by Congressman Doug Lamborn, who needs to win his case if he is to get on the June 26 Republican primary ballot. Late in the day on August 30, the Tenth Circuit agreed with the U.S. District Court that Lamborn’s opponents should not be allowed to intervene in the case. The District Court had said the opponents wouldn’t add anything to the constitutional issue being decided. The opponents had then asked the Tenth Circuit to let them intervene, but that request was denied without comment.

U.S. District Court Permits Independent Candidate Mark Moore to Run This Year, Even Though He Didn’t File Paperwork by March 1

Posted on by April 30, 2018
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On April 30, U.S. District Court Judge James Moody issued an order in Moore v Martin. The order says that the plaintiff, Mark Moore, may run as an independent candidate this year in Arkansas, providing his petition has enough valid signatures and providing Moore files the declaration of candidacy and other paperwork by May 1.

Earlier Moore had won a lawsuit against the March 1 petition deadline. But then the state argued that he should not be allowed to run this year because he had never challenged the March 1 deadline for filing candidacy paperwork. Moore responded that always before, the petition deadline and the paperwork deadline were on the same day, and it is only logical that because the petition deadline had been extended to May 1 by the court, therefore the paperwork deadline was also implicitly moved to May 1.

Moore is an independent candidate this year for State Senate.

U.S. District Court Likely to Rule on Colorado’s Out-of-State Circulator Ban in Next Two Days

Posted on by April 30, 2018
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U.S. District Court Judge Phillip Brimmer held a hearing in Goodall v Williams on Monday, April 30. Here is a news story about the hearing, which concerns Colorado’s ban on out-of-state circulators for candidate petitions.

UPDATE: also see this story, which reveals that the ban on out-of-state circulators in Colorado has existed since 1980.

Federal Election Commission’s 2016 Election Returns Book Now in Print

Posted on by April 30, 2018
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The Federal Election Commission’s print book of 2016 election returns has been released. It has 197 pages and is called “Federal Elections 2016”. It is free to anyone who asks. It includes election returns for all federal office, primary and general. It is the most accurate reference book for election returns for 2016. The book can be ordered by calling the FEC at 800-424-9530 and choosing option #2.