On July 8, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker, an Obama appointee, enjoined the new Florida law that says initiative petitions can only be circulated by Florida residents. He also enjoined the new law that says only U.S. citizens can circulate initiative petitions. Florida Decides Healthcare v Byrd, n.d., 4:25cv-211.
On July 17, the British government announced that a bill will be introduced soon to lower the voting age to sixteen. Because the Labour Party has a majority in the House of Commons, and the party backs the idea, it is considered certain to pass. See this story.
As of July 12, 2025, here are the number of Missouri voters registered into each qualified party: Republican 120,449; Democratic 110,844; Libertarian 4,772; not registered into any party 4,063,782.
The Missouri voter registration form did not ask about party affiliation until 2022, when the legislature passed HB 1878 providing that the form should ask about party membership. The overwhelming majority of Missouri voters have not had to register in the past three years, so naturally not many voters have used the new form. That is why so few voters are registered with any of the three parties.
Missouri continues to have an open primary. Any voter can ask for any party primary ballot. If the voter has chosen a party, that has no concrete bearing on election administration. Arkansas is similar to Missouri.
Ballot Access News has never before reported on party membership in Missouri.
On July 16, the New York city Charter Revision Commission decided not to put the top-two system on the November 2025 ballot as a possible amendment to the existing city charter.
Susan Hogarth, a Libertarian Party nominee for North Carolina legislature in 2024, has a federal lawsuit pending against the state’s ban on a voter taking a picture of his or her voted ballot. Hogarth v Bell, e.d., 5:24cv-481. See this article about the case, which will probably be decided soon. The Judge is Louise Wood Flanagan, a Bush Jr. appointee.
