Rocky De La Fuente submitted approximately 14,000 signatures to be on the Georgia ballot as an independent presidential candidate. The signatures were submitted by the July 12 deadline. But De La Fuente did not submit the names of his presidential elector candidates by July 1, and Georgia requires those names by that date.

Nevertheless, the state is checking his petition. Georgia and Arizona are the only states that require the names of presidential elector candidates to be submitted that early, and this year Arizona agreed not to enforce the presidential elector deadline, after the Green Party sued and Arizona decided not to enforce the presidential elector deadline.

On July 20, several Texas voters filed a federal lawsuit against the Texas system for electing State Supreme Court Justices, and Judges of the State Court of Criminal Appeals. Both courts have nine members. For both courts, elections are partisan and are at-large. The lawsuit charges that the system violates Section Two of the federal Voting Rights Act, because it makes it difficult for ethnic and racial minorities to elect judges of their choice. Here is the Complaint. The case is Lopez v Abbott, s.d., 2:16cv-303. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.

On July 25, the Michigan Secretary of State filed a notice of appeal in Michigan State A. Philip Randolph Institute v Johnson, e.d., 2:16cv-11844. This is the case in which a U.S. District Court ordered Michigan to restore the straight-ticket device, on the grounds that the new law deleting the device injures African American voters.