On August 22, Better for America issued a press release, saying its opportunity to influence the presidential election as diminished, and therefore it will end its candidate recruitment and ballot access efforts. It only circulated two petitions for party status, in Arkansas and New Mexico.

Although it is believed that Better for America supports Evan McMullin for president, so far there is no official link between Better for America and the McMullin campaign. This press release does not mean that McMullin isn’t continuing to petition. The Better for America press release says it will continue to pursue constitutional litigation against bad ballot access laws. So far its only lawsuit is in New Mexico, over whether its party petition had enough valid signatures.

This ABC story says that an internal Evan McMullin campaign memo lists seven states that have a ballot-qualified party that might nominate McMullin, putting him on the ballot in those states with no need for a petition. According to the story, those states are Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, and South Carolina.

Minnesota has no ballot-qualified parties. Apparently the author of the memo believed that the Independence Party is on the ballot, but it went off the ballot in 2014.

The only Delaware ballot-qualified party that hasn’t already nominated someone for Presdent is the Independent Party, but the Independent Party already endorsed Donald Trump, although conceivably it could change its mind.

Florida has several ballot-qualified parties that conceivably could nominate McMullin, including the Independent Party and the Independence Party. Neither has ever before nominated anyone for President.

Hawaii has two ballot-qualified parties that could possibly nominate McMullin: the Independent Party and the American Shopping Party.

New York has two ballot-qualified parties that might possibly nominate McMullin, the Reform Party and the Independence Party. But those are unlikely. The leader of the Independence Party is a friend of Donald Trump. The leader of the Reform Party has promised the Republican Party to always nominate the Republican presidential nominee.

Oregon has one qualified party that might possibly nominate McMullin, the Constitution Party. The Oregon Constitution Party is angry with the national Constitution Party. The Oregon Independent Party has already determined that it will not nominate a presidential candidate this year. It is politically impossible that the Progressive Party would nominate McMullin.

South Carolina has two qualified parties that might nominate McMullin, the American Party and the Independence Party. The American Party already nominated someone else for president, but that party could change its mind.

John E. Palmer has this op-ed advocating that Maine voters pass the statewide initiative for instant runoff voting. It is in the Portland Press-Herald, the state’s largest newspaper.