California holds a special election on October 3 to fill the vacant 51st district Assembly seat. The seat is in central Los Angeles. Here is the list of the 13 candidates who will be on the ballot. There are ten Democrats, one independent, one Libertarian, and one Peace & Freedom member.
If anyone gets 50% on October 13, that person is elected. Otherwise the top two candidates will be in a runoff in December.
On August 15, Utah held a Republican primary for U.S. House, 3rd district, special election. Here is a link to the results. None of the other qualified parties needed a primary, because they all chose a nominee in a party meeting.
Here is a link to election returns for the Alabama special primaries for U.S. Senate. It appears there will be a run-off primary for the Republicans on September 26, because no one has a majority so far.
The special election itself is not until December 12. The petition deadline for any unqualified party or independent candidate was August 15, and no one submitted a petition. If the state had a reasonable law, the petition would not be due until September 26, the date the major party nominees will be known.
On April 15, a 3-judge U.S. District court invalidated the current Texas U.S. House district boundaries for districts 27 and 35. Perez v Abbott, w.d., SA-11-cv-360. The vote was 3-0. This case was filed in 2011. The original boundaries drawn in 2011 had already been invalidated. The new decision invalidates district boundaries drawn in 2013. Here is the decision.
The court asked the state to say whether the legislature intends to draw new boundaries. If the state says it won’t, then the judges will begin to process for a court-drawn plan. Texas plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the new decision. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich were Colorado Democratic presidential electors last year who filed a federal lawsuit to win the freedom to vote in the electoral college for someone other than Hillary Clinton. They did end up voting for Hillary Clinton, after watching the Secretary of State expel a third Democratic presidential elector, Michael Baca, who cast a vote for Bernie Sanders. Because Michael Baca was expelled, his vote was not counted, and he was replaced by an elector who did vote for Clinton.
On August 2, Polly Baca and Nemanich voluntarily dismissed their lawsuit, which had still been pending in U.S. District Court. On August 10, they filed a new case, which is similar to the old one. Here is the new complaint. The new case is Baca v Williams, 1:17cv-1937.
