The Greensboro, North Carolina News & Record here editorializes against the bill to move North Carolina primaries for all office from May to March. The editorial says the non-presidential primary should remain in May and the presidential primary should also be in May.
Backers of an Ohio initiative concerning marijuana have already submitted over 650,000 signatures on their initiative petition. On September 3, they sued the Secretary of State to block his intent to force the group to reveal all their internal communications. Here is the Complaint in John Doe v Husted, southern district, 1:15cv570.
On September 3, the Illinois Libertarian Party filed this request for a status conference with U.S. District Court Judge Andrea Robin Wood in Illinois Libertarian Party v Illinois State Board of Elections. The issue is the unique Illinois law that requires newly-qualifying parties (but not old parties) to run a full slate of candidates. The case was filed in 2012 and has never received an opinion. The status conference request lists the many instances when Judge Wood had promised a decision, but then did not actually issue a decision.
On September 3, Donald Trump held a press conference to show that he has signed the Republican National Committee’s pledge to endorse the eventual Republican presidential nominee. See this story.
On September 1, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1100, which raises the filing fee for a statewide initiative from $200 to $2,000. Proponents file the text of their idea, and pay the filing fee, and then the state government writes a short summary that is printed on the petition. Only then does the petitioning start. California now has the highest filing fee for statewide initiatives.
