On May 6, Indiana Governor Mike Braun signed Senate Bill 287. It provides that candidates for School Boards can list a party affiliation on the ballot. However, parties would not have nominees for that office. The bill is vague about whether a candidate can list a party that is not ballot-qualified.
Recently, the Natural Law Party of Florida, No Labels, and the Peoples Party asked the Florida Secretary of State to remove them as qualified parties. Also, in April 2025, a new party qualified. It is the Men Going Their Own Way Party, but because that name is so long, the Secretary of State considers it to be the MGTOW Party.
Men Going Their Own Way is a movement that advocates that men not socialize with women, according to this wikipedia article.
Pennsylvania is the only state in which voters elect individuals to the job of running elections in each voting precinct. Such elections have existed since 1799. See this Votebeat story about the Pennsylvania system for choosing polling place officials.
On May 27, the Colorado Republican Party filed this brief in Colorado Republican Party v Griswold, 1:23cv-1948. The case involves the party’s desire to prevent independent voters from voting in Republican primaries. The case was filed in 2023 and has been moving slowly.
On May 22, the Kansas Supreme Court declined to expedite United Kansas Party v Schwab, the case over whether the Kansas Constitution permits two parties to jointly nominate the same candidate. The plaintiffs had asked the court to hear the case before it goes through the State Court of Appeals.
Therefore, the court will go next be heard in the State Court of Appeals, where it is case 128,896.
