This Daily News article shows the New York City sample ballot for Mayor. New York state has one of the worst ballot formats of any state. It is a party column ballot. The only other states that still use party column ballots are New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware. All other states long ago switched to office group format, in which all the candidates for a particular office are listed clearly together.
On Saturday, October 11, the Texas Republican Party decided not to bar any candidates from its 2026 primary ballot. See this story.
The Iowa Libertarian Party elected its nominee Thomas Laehn to be the Greene County Attorney in 2018. He was re-elected as a Libertarian in 2022. Now he is running as a Libertarian for U.S. Senate in 2026. See this story.
On September 30, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Brooks held a four hour argument in League of Women Voters of Arkansas v Jester, w.d., 5:25cv-5087. This is the lawsuit that challenges new restrictions on the initiative in Arkansas. See this story.
On October 2, South Dakota appealed Dakotans for Health v Johnson, 25-2940, to the Eighth Circuit. This is the case in which the U.S. District Court had struck down the February petition deadline for initiative petitions.
