On September 10, a Colorado state court put Karla Heard-Price on the ballot for Colorado Springs school board. She had initially been kept off because two forms were submitted late. The candidate did nothing to fight the administrative ruling. But some voters who wanted to vote for her then filed a lawsuit to get her on the ballot, and the case won, so she is now on the ballot. See this story.

Previously, the Eighth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit had ruled that voters have standing to challenge ballot access laws, even if no candidate-plaintiff is in the same lawsuit.

The Florida redistricting case is moving very fast. The trial court wants the plaintiffs to submit their proposed maps of new U.S. House districts by September 14. See this story.

On September 11, Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican presidential race. He had been one of the five debaters set for the CNN September 16 debate at 6 p.m. That should mean there are now only four candidates in that debate: Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki, and Lindsey Graham.

There are eleven candidates in the debate set for the same day at 8 p.m. The irony is that the candidates in the 6 p.m. debate will have more speaking time than the “more important” candidates in the 8 p.m. debate. Those times are Pacific time zone. The debates are in Simi Valley, California.