On October 3, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Gill v Whitford, 16-1161, the Wisconsin political gerrymandering case. Here is a New York Times story about the oral argument.
UPDATE: here is a more detailed Reuters story.
FURTHER UPDATE: this Chicago Tribune story says Justice Anthony Kennedy “did not tip his hand”, and it seems obvious that the other justices are divided, four on each side.
Ballot Access News
September 1, 2017 – Volume 33, Number 4
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The lawsuit Wilding v Democratic National Committee Services Corporation has been appealed to the Eleventh Circuit. This is the case, filed in 2016, by Bernie Sanders supporters who had donated money to the Democratic Party, and who feel the party defrauded them because its rules said it would be neutral in the presidential nomination battle, yet in reality national party leaders seem to not been neutral. The case is now 17-14194.
According to this story, Sal Albanese, a former New York city councilman and the Reform Party nominee for Mayor of New York city, has sued the New York City Campaign Finance Board over his exclusion from the mayoral debates. The Campaign Finance Board sponsors such debates. Albanese meets the spending criteria for inclusion, but not the polling criterion. However, as he points out, there have been no polls that mentioned him.
A radio station in Syracuse, New York, has broadcast a four-party debate for the November 7, 2017 election for Mayor of Syracuse. The four parties were the Democratic, Republican, Green, and Independence Parties. See this story.
