According to this story, Wyoming businessman David Dodson will be an independent candidate for U.S. Senate this year. He will need 5,036 valid signatures, not easy in Wyoming, which has the smallest population of any state.
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According to this story, Chicago will hold partisan primaries for a special election for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, yet no names will be printed on either the Democratic primary ballot or the Green primary ballot. There are no Republican declared write-in candidates for that seat.
J. David Lashar, a high-ranking official in the Maryland Health Department, will seek the Libertarian nomination for U.S. House, 3rd district, according to this story.
In 2016, the Libertarian Party did not contest this seat. The 2016 vote was: Incumbent John P. Sarbanes, Democrat, 214,640; Republican Mark Plaster, Republican, 115,048; Green Nnabu Eze, 9,461.
The Washington state bills to move the presidential primary from May to March, HB 1469 and SB 5333, failed to meet legislative deadlines, so neither can pass this year. Thanks to Jim Riley for this news.
Another Washington state bill that failed for the same reason is SB 6191, which would have provided that presidential electors who don’t vote for the candidate who got the most popular votes in their state are automatically displaced.
On February 21, Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania legislature again asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the new U.S. House district boundaries that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently created. Here is the brief. It is called Turzai v League of Women Voters, just like the last similar request. The last request had been made on January 26 and had been denied on February 5. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.