On April 10, Mexico’s top electoral court ruled 4-3 that independent presidential candidate Jaime “El Bronco” Rodriguez should be placed on the ballot. National election authorities had ruled that he didn’t have enough valid signatures. He showed that many of his disqualified signatures were actually valid, but he ran out of time. The basis for the decision is that he wasn’t given an opportunity to complete the re-validation process.

See this story. There are now five presidential candidates on the ballot.

The basis for the decision seems to resemble the decision in U.S. District Court in Georgia in 1980, when the court put John B. Anderson on the ballot because he had not been given enough time to prove that he really did have enough valid signatures. Anderson v Poythress.

South Carolina voter registration forms do not ask voters about party membership, and any voter is free to choose any party’s primary ballot. In the June 2018 primary, voters who choose a Republican primary ballot will be asked to vote on whether the state should ask about party membership on voter registration forms. South Carolina lets parties put advisory questions on their own primary ballots. See this story.

The Maryland legislature adjourns on April 9, late at night. SB 256, the bill to require presidential candidates to reveal their income tax returns, is almost certain not to pass. Although it passed the Senate on March 5, and although it had a hearing in the House committee on March 20, it has made no further progress.