On May 25, some Georgia voters filed a state court lawsuit against the Georgia Secretary of State, seeking an order that the government use paper ballots for the upcoming June 20 special U.S. House election. Georgia uses vote-counting machines that do not have an audit trail. The case is Curling v Kemp, Superior Court, Fulton County, 2017cv-290630. A hearing is set for June 7 at 10 a.m.

There has been prior litigation in Georgia against the vote-counting equipment. So far none of them has succeeded.

On May 26, the California Secretary of State filed this brief in Koller v Brown, n.d., 5:16cv-7069. This is the lawsuit over the law that tells presidential electors that they must vote for the presidential candidate who got the most popular votes in the state.

The brief tries to persuade the court that the case is moot, and says little about the merits of the case.

On May 29, Memorial Day, the Illinois House unanimously passed SB 1933. It had passed the Senate on May 5. It provides that adult citizens known by the state government to exist will automatically be registered to vote, unless they opt out. The Senate vote had also been unanimous. The bill still isn’t through the legislative process, because the Senate needs to vote on whether to approve a House amendment. That will probably happen on May 30.

Because the Illinois voter registration form doesn’t ask applicants to choose a party, Illinois does not have the problem of asking these new registrants about their choice of party.

Assuming the bill is signed into law, after a few years the effect will probably be to make it more likely that a petition signature will be considered valid. A larger proportion of signers (compared to the present day) will be registered voters.