North Carolina is waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if the entire state legislature will be up for election in November 2017. Normally North Carolina, like 45 other states, elects all its legislators in even years. But on November 29, 2016, a 3-judge U.S. District Court had told the state to redraw all its legislative districts by March 15, 2017, and then to hold legislative elections in those new districts later that year.

The state hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will cancel the order. The Court has this case on its January 19, 2017 conference. The case is North Carolina v Covington, 16-649.

According to this story, Jill Stein did not spend all the money she raised for the recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. She will use the balance, estimate to be between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, for a new organization that will work on integrity of elections.

Legislators in Illinois, Indiana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Texas have agreed to introduce ballot access improvement bills in 2017. It is hoped that legislators in additional states will soon be found. This is the time when activists have the most opportunity to get bills introduced.