The incumbent Coroner of Lake County, Illinois, hopes to be re-elected this year. The race is partisan. He initially circulated petitions to run in the Democratic primary, but withdrew from that race. Now Democrats in the county have challenged his candidacy as an independent, on the grounds that he can’t be an independent candidate because of his prior activity with the Democratic Party. Illinois voter registration forms do not ask applicants to choose a party affiliation, so there are frequent disputes in Illinois, as well as Ohio, over who is eligible to be an independent candidate. See this story.

On July 7, a U.S. District Court heard arguments in Correll v Herring, e.d., Virginia, 3:16cv-467. This newspaper story describes the hearing, although it does not say anything about which way Judge Robert Payne appeared to be leaning. The article says there will be no decision today. The issue is the Virginia law that requires delegates to national conventions to vote for the presidential candidate on the first ballot who had won Virginia’s presidential primary. UPDATE: here is a more detailed news story from the Washington Post.

Based on case law, this case is likely to succeed. The U.S. Supreme Court, ever since 1972, has struck down state laws that tried to influence how national political party conventions are run.

Recently, there have been stories in major media that there is a conceivable path toward changing the rules of the Republican national convention, with an end toward nominating someone for President other than Donald Trump. Mark Whittington summarizes these reports at Blasting News.