On August 10, the New York City Board of Elections posted a list of primary candidates in this year’s city elections. When there is only one candidate running for a particular office, and no “opportunity to ballot” petition to allow write-ins for that particular office (for any particular party) then no primary is actually held. That is why, except for the Democrat candidates, there are so few candidates listed. New York has eight parties that are entitled to a primary, but there are very few actual contests in any of the parties other than the Democratic Party.

On August 8, Iowa held a special election to fill the vacancy in the State House, 82nd district. Here is a link to the results. The percentages are: Democratic 53.80%; Republican 44.47%; Libertarian .95%; Constitution .78%.

When this seat was last up, in November 2016, the only candidate was the Democratic nominee. The district is in southeast Iowa.

On August 2, U.S. District Court Judge Kimberly J. Mueller ruled that Citizens for Fair Representation v Padilla, e.d., 2:17cv-973, should go to a 3-judge court. This is the case that says the U.S. Constitution requires that California’s legislative districts have fewer residents. Currently California State Senate districts have almost 1,000,000 inhabitants, and Assembly districts almost 500,000.

On August 3 the state asked that the judge reconsider. No response has been received since August 3.