Rocky De La Fuente petitioned in Pennsylvania to be on the November 2016 ballot as an independent presidential candidate. Even though he appeared to have enough signatures, and even though no one challenged his petition, the Pennsylvania Department of State refused to put him on the ballot, because he had also appeared on the Democratic presidential primary in 2016.

De La Fuente sued over that in August 2016, and the case is still alive. Here is the state’s brief, explaining its action. The brief was filed June 8. The case is De La Fuente v Cortes, m.d., 1:16cv-1696. Most of the brief raises procedural objections; the only substantive discussion about whether sore loser laws can apply to presidential primaries starts on page 21. The brief does not mention that Pennsylvania counted John Anderson’s write-ins in the 1980 Republican presidential primary, and also allowed Anderson to be on the November ballot as an independent.

On June 9, a Georgia state trial court refused to enjoin the use of Georgia’s vote-counting machines in the June 20 special U.S. House election. See this story. The trial had been held two days earlier. Curling v Kemp, Fulton County 2017cv-290630. Thanks to Robin Chand for the link.

UPDATE: here is the decision. Thanks to Garland Favorito and Bev Harris for the decision.

According to this story, at least three members of the U.S. House have responded to the June 11 Puerto Rico vote by saying they will work for statehood for Puerto Rico. They are all Democrats: Darren Soto and Stephanie Murphy of Florida, and Jared Huffman of California. Soto is on the Subcommittee that would consider a statehood bill.