Alabama legislators are now able to pre-introduce bills for the 2026 session. Representative Marilyn Lands (D-Huntsville) has introduced HB 14, to establish a statewide initiative procedure.
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On June 4, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed HB 420. It changes the procedure for a group to become a qualified party. The old law required such a group to have 1,000 registrants and to pay a fee of $1,000. The new law, effective August 1, says it must have 5,000 registrants and pay a fee of $1,000.
Once a group becomes a qualified party, it need not retain 5,000 registrants. It can remain qualified if it had run a candidate for some partisan office at any time in the last four years.
The bill also says that no party can have “Independent” as part of its name, and that voters who register “independent” will be classed as though they had checked the “no party” box. And it sets out a procedure for a qualified party to voluntarily cease being qualified. The Independent Party of Louisiana will now cease to exist as a qualified party.
Two New Jersey former Governors, Christy Whitman and Jon Corzine, have published this op-ed in the Daily Record, a daily newspaper in New Jersey.
The State Supreme Court will decide eventually whether the state constitution requires the state to permit fusion.
On May 9, 2025, a federal lawsuit was filed against the new Wyoming law that requires individuals who are registering to vote to include documents proving their citizenship. Equality State Policy Center v Wyoming Secretary of State, 1:25cv-117. Here is the Complaint.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl, an Obama appointee.
Here are the percentages of voters enrolled in each political party in New York, although the data for the qualified parties is from February 22, 2025, and the data for the unqualified parties that are still tracked is from June 9, 2025: Democratic 47.54%; Republican 22.94%; Independence 2.23%; Conservative 1.29%; Working Families .45%; Green .13%; Libertarian .11%; independent and other 25.30%.
Percentages on November 1, 2024 were: Democratic 47.85%; Republican 22.71%; Independence 2.42%; Conservative 1.28%; Working Families .44%; Green .13%; Libertarian .12%; independent and other 25.04%.
The recent figures for the unqualified parties are not on the state’s website. The numbers are: Independence 276,566; Green 15,522; Libertarian 14,177: SAM 330. SAM isn’t mentioned in the paragraphs above that list percentages because its percentages amounts to less than .01%.