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.

Philadelphia Magazine and WURD radio have this story about the upcoming trial in Little v Vasquez, the lawsuit over the March 2017 special election for state representative in Philadelphia’s 197th state house district.  The case is in federal court and has a trial on September 13 at 2 p.m.  It concerns charges that voters were bribed to cast a write-in vote for the Democratic nominee.  The case was filed by the Republican nominee and the Green nominee.

The Reform Party is ballot-qualified in New York, and has decided to let independent voters participate in its Mayoral primary being held on September 12, 2017.  This will be the first time any party in New York has let independent voters vote in an actual primary for an election of this size.  Some years ago the Independence Party also decided to let New York independent voters vote in its statewide primaries, but during those years there was no actual Independence Party statewide primary.  But there were Independence Party primaries for county office outside New York city.

The Reform Party mayoral primary ballot will only have one candidate listed, Sal F. Albanese.  But there will be write-in space on the ballot, because an opportunity to ballot petition was successfully completed.  That means all write-ins will be tallied, whether the candidate written in is seeking the nomination or not.

Albanese is also seeking the Democratic Mayoral nomination, and is a Democrat.  If he wins the Reform Party nomination but not the Democratic nomination, he will accept the Reform Party nomination and will run in November.