New Jersey elects its Governor on November 4, 2025.  Five candidates filed petitions to be on the November ballot, but now the two independent candidates have been removed because they did not have at least 2,000 valid signatures.  See this story.

That leaves the three minor party nominees for Governor still on the ballot.  They are the nominees of the Green, Libertarian, and Socialist Workers Party.

For Assembly, only six petitions were submitted, by three Greens, two Libertarians, and one independent.  Challenges to one of the Greens and one of the Libertarians removed those two candidates.  So the only legislative candidate on the ballot, for the 80 seats, are two Greens, one Libertarian, and one independent.

On June 17, the New York Assembly passed S7111 by 82-49.  It expands the ability of parties to expel members believed to be not in sympathy with the party’s political stances.  The law already let parties do this if they have county committees in the affected counties.  The bill says a party can also exert this power if it doesn’t have county committees; the power would be exercised by the state committee.

The Working Families Party had requested this bill after an incident in 2024 when Republican-sympathetic voters had enrolled in WFP and altered one of its U.S. House nomination contests.

On June 19, the North Carolina State Board of Elections voted 3-2 to keep the Green Party on the ballot for 2026 and 2028.  The law says a party retains its qualified status “if the group of voters had a candidate nominated by that group on the general election ballot of at least 70% of the states in the prior Presidential election.”

Jill Stein was the nominee of the Green Party in 2024, and she appeared on the ballot in 38 states.  The two Democrats on the Board voted against the Green Party because in seven of the states her label was not “Green Party”.  In those seven states, either the Green Party has a different name in that state, or else her label was “independent.”  The three Republicans on the Board voted that the Green Party complies with the law.  See this story.

Stein had “independent” or “by petition” in Alabama, Idaho, Nebraska, and Tennessee.  In Alaska, she was the nominee of the Aurora Party; in Kentucky, the Kentucky Party; and in West Virginia, the Mountain Party.  Democrats acknowledged that the Green Independent Party in Maine, the Rainbow-Green Party in Massachusetts, and the Pacific Green Party in Oregon were affiliates of the national Green Party.

The story also says that the Constitution, We the People, Justice for All, and No Labels Party went off the ballot.  That was no surprise because none of them had a presidential nominee who was on the ballot in more than eighteen states, and furthermore none of them polled as much as 2% of the North Carolina vote for either President or Governor.