Mission Viejo, California, a city in Orange County, will use cumulative voting for city council elections starting in 2020. See this story.
Here is the wikipedia page about cumulative voting.
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On July 27, the Pennsylvania Libertarian Party filed its statewide petition, which contains nominees for U.S. Senate, Governor, and Lieutenant Governor. The state required 5,000 valid signatures; the Libertarians submitted 11,000.
By the August 1 deadline, it is expected that statewide petitions from the Green and Constitution Parties will also be submitted. This year will be the first since 2002 than any statewide minor party or independent candidates were on the ballot in a gubernatorial year. However, in 2017, there was a Green on the statewide ballot for a partisan judicial race.
According to this news story, it is very likely that the New Mexico Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. Senate, Aubrey Dunn, will withdraw. The story also says that Gary Johnson may replace him. Parties in New Mexico have the ability to replace nominees who withdraw.
On July 27, independent candidate Christopher Graveline, who is running for Michigan Attorney General, filed a federal lawsuit, challenging the Michigan petition requirement for statewide independents. Graveline v Johnson, e.d., 2:16cv-11844.
In the entire history of the state, only twice has any independent candidate managed to get on the ballot for statewide office using the current requirement, which requires 30,000 signatures by the middle of July. The two were Ross Perot in 1992, and Ralph Nader in 2004.
The primary in Michigan is in August. Generally non-presidential independent candidate petition deadlines are unconstitutional if they are earlier than the primary day, or the day before. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Victoria A. Roberts, a Clinton appointee. Here is the Complaint.
On Wednesday, July 25, the Eleventh Circuit heard Hand v Scott, 18-11388. This is the case over whether the Florida system for restoring voting rights for ex-felons is too arbitrary to be constitutional. Ex-felons can never again vote unless the Governor grants them relief. The voters who filed the case argue that the state must have objective standards and that the current system depends entirely on the whim of the Governor.
Here is a recording of the oral argument, which lasted 63 minutes. The panel consisted of Judge Ed Carnes, a Bush Sr. appointee; Elizabeth Branch, a Trump appointee; and visiting U.S. District Court Judge Darrin Gayles, an Obama appointee.
Here is a news story about the hearing.