Georgia holds a special run-off on June 20 for U.S. House. A U.S. District Court is currently considering whether Georgia must let voters register to vote for that run-off during May. Here is the reply brief filed by the voters’ rights organizations that brought the lawsuit. Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v State, n.d., 1:17cv-1397. The lawsuit is based on the federal law that does not permit states to close off the registration deadline earlier than 30 days before a federal election or runoff. The hearing is Thursday, May 4, at 2 p.m.

Independent Voters Network has a copy of the transcript in Wilding v Democratic National Committee Services, s.d. Fl., 0:16cv-61511. The oral argument was held for three hours on the afternoon of April 25 before U.S. District Court Judge William Zloch, a Reagan appointee. The Democratic National Committee argued that the case should be dismissed. The case had been filed in June 2016 by supporters of Bernie Sanders. Most of them had donated money to the Democratic Party, and they ask for damages, on the grounds that the party broke its own rules that required the party to be neutral between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

At the end of the transcript, one finds a few brief remarks by Judge Zloch. He said, “This is a very interesting case, to say the least…Democracy demands the truth so people can make intelligent decisions.” Early in the transcript, he also admonished some spectators in the courtroom to stop distracting him. He said they were making exaggerated gestures showing support for the plaintiffs and that they should cease doing that.

On May 2, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed SB 1307, which moves the deadline for parties to choose presidential electors from early June to late August.