There are 31 amici curiae briefs (on the side opposed to the government of Wisconsin) to the U.S. Supreme Court in Gill v Whitford, the partisan gerrymandering lawsuit that will be argued next month. Probably the one amicus brief that explains there are alternatives to single-winner districts is the one submitted by Fairvote and One Nation One Vote. The amicus says the current Wisconsin districts should be held unconstitutional, based on the motives of the Republican majority who drafted the districts. Then it explains the virtues of using ranked choice voting, cumulative voting, or limited voting.

A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles will hear arguments in De La Fuente v Padilla, 2:16cv-3242, on Monday, October 2. The case challenges the number of signatures needed for an independent presidential candidate, which will probably be close to 200,000 in 2020, unless the lawsuit wins or possibly the legislature eases it.

The hearing had been set for Monday, September 11.

On September 5, New Hampshire held a special election to fill a vacant seat in the State House, Grafton 9 district. The results: Republican 50.9%; Democratic 46.8%; Libertarian 2.3%.

When this district voted in November 2016, it elected two members, and the only candidates were two Republicans and two Democrats. Republicans won both seats with a combined 56.3% of the vote.