New York city holds partisan primaries for city office on September 12, 2017. Petitioning for candidates to get on a primary ballot runs from June 6 through July 13.

The Independence Party leadership already chose its favored candidate for Mayor on January 5, 2017. That choice is Paul Massey, a Republican who also plans to run in the Republican primary.

The Conservative Party leadership chose its favored candidate for Mayor on May 17. That candidate is Nicole Malliotakis, who is also running in the Republican Party primary.

The Reform Party leadership chose Sal Albanese for Mayor, earlier this month. He is a Democrat who plans to run in the Democratic primary.

Richard “Bo” Dietl, another mayoral candidate, was recently blocked from running in the Republican primary because he is not an enrolled Republican. The last time he filled out a voter registration form, he accidentally checked the boxes for both the Democratic Party and the Independence Party. On June 8, the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, upheld the decision of the lower court that he is not an enrolled Republican. He had argued that because his new voter registration form was ambiguous, he should be considered to be a Republican because his previous registration form showed him to be a Republican. That case is Matter of Dietl v Board of Elections in the City of New York, 2017 NY Slip Op. 04573. Thanks to Richard Grayson for news about the Dietl lawsuit.

According to wikipedia, with one seat still unsettled, the results of the June 8 House of Commons election are: Conservative 317, Labour 261, Scottish National Party 35, Liberal Democrat 12, Democratic Unionist 10, Sinn Fein 7, Plaid Cymru 4, Green 1, one independent, and the district that elects the speaker always elects a non-partisan individual.

The popular vote shares for the parties that won at least one seat are: Conservative 42.4%; Labour 40.0%; Liberal Democrat 7.4%; Scottish National 3.0%; Green 1.6%; Democratic Unionist .9%; Sinn Fein .7%; Plaid Cymru .5%. Here is the wikipedia article; scroll down for the results.

The Conservative and Democratic Unionist Parties will cooperate with each. Together the two parties have 327 members, out of 650 seats.

On June 7, a Georgia state trial court heard oral arguments and witnesses in a case that challenges the state’s vote-counting machines. Here is a description of the testimony of witnesses on both sides, written by Garland Favorito, who was at the hearing. The machines have no audit trail.