On June 22, the Nevada Secretary of State told the Green Party that its party petition only had 4,784 valid signatures. It needed 5,431.

The Nevada deadline for that petition was June 2. But back in 1992, a U.S. District Court enjoined the Nevada deadline for minor parties and independent candidates, which that year was June 10. That case was Fulani v Lau. The legislature afterwards moved the deadline to July, but over the years forgot why it had done that, and moved the deadline back to April, and then last year moved it to June 2.

Nevada is in the Ninth Circult, and in 2008 the Ninth Circuit struck down Arizona’s June 10 petition deadline for independent candidates, in Nader v Brewer, which makes the 1992 Nevada Fulani precedent even stronger now than it was back in 1992.

Eric Fink, who hoped to be the first independent candidate for North Carolina State Senate in the history of government-printed ballots, failed to have enough valid signatures. He needed 5,255 and only had 4,269 valid. North Carolina has never had an independent candidate for any statewide office on the ballot, except for Ross Perot in 1992. It has never had an independent on for U.S. House. The requirement is 4% of the number of registered voters. Thanks to Kevin Hayes for this news.

On June 24, a New York state trial court in Nassau County said that Philip Pidot has enough valid signatures to be on the Republican primary ballot, but he still can’t be on that ballot because it is “impossible” to add him at such a late date. Pidot v Macedo, 3448/2016. Here is the decision.

The primary is June 28. The candidate, Philip Pidot, asked that the primary for that district be postponed. The June 28 primary is only for U.S. Congress anyway, so no other offices are on the ballot except U.S. Senate. Pidot also pointed out that the June 28 primary date for congress isn’t in the election law anyway; that date stems from a 2012 lawsuit in which the state was told by a federal judge to hold its congressional primaries that date.