On April 20, several voting rights groups sued Georgia, over the state’s March 20 deadline to register to vote in the special run-off election for U.S. House, sixth district. That run-off is set for June 20, but the deadline for registering to vote was March 21. Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v Kemp, n.d., 1:17cv-1397.
Federal law requires states to let people register to vote as late as 30 days before any federal election. Here is the Complaint. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
On April 20, the Associated Press published this story about the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by the Montana candidates who have been barred from the May 25 ballot so far.
British Columbia holds a provincial parliamentary election on May 9, 2017. See the wikipedia page for this election here. British Columbia has 87 districts. In the average district, there are 4.3 candidates on the ballot. The only parties that have as many as 10 nominees are:
Liberal 87
New Democratic 87
Green 83
Libertarian 30
Conservative 10
Your Party 10
On April 19, the Colorado House State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee passed HB 1281. It allows local governments to use approval voting for elections for their own officers. The sponsor of the bill is Representative Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont). Thanks to ElectionLine for this news.
On April 20, the three Montana candidates for Congress, in the May 25 special election, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put them on the ballot. They had sued to overturn state law that required them to collect over 14,000 valid signatures in three days. The U.S. District Court agreed that the law is probably invalid, and said 400 signatures should be enough. But the U.S. District Court wouldn’t give any of the three candidates time to collect those 400 signatures.
The Ninth Circuit, without comment, refused any relief. In the U.S. Supreme Court, the case is 16A-1008. It is before Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has jurisdiction over such appeals from the Ninth Circuit. Montana is in the Ninth Circuit.
