Better for America, which attempted to qualify as a party in New Mexico by the June 30 deadline, was told that its petition is 86 signatures short. The party has filed a lawsuit in state court, arguing that it really does have enough valid signatures. See this story. The Independent American Party won a similar lawsuit in New Mexico state court in 2012. The Secretary of State had determined that it didn’t have enough valid signatures for its U.S. Senate nominee, but the State Supreme Court reversed the Secretary of State and put the nominee on the ballot.

Better for America has not nominated anyone for president yet, but it is assumed that it will nominate Evan McMullin.

On August 17, the South Dakota Constitution Party asked a U.S. District Court to reconsider its August 15 order, which had denied injunctive relief of putting the party’s nominees for U.S. Senate and state house on the November 2016 ballot. Here is the 6-page brief. The court had said the complaint in this case was not specific enough, but the request for reconsideration has persuasive authority that the U.S. District Court erred.

On August 1, Rocky De La Fuente voluntarily dismissed his lawsuit against the Florida law on how an independent presidential candidate gets on the ballot. He no longer needs the lawsuit, because he is the Reform Party nominee and the Reform Party is on the ballot in Florida.