On June 29, U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell moved the hearing in Arizona Libertarian Party v Reagan from August 5 to July 12. The issue is the constitutionality of the bill passed last year that sharply expands the number of write-in votes Libertarians need in their own primary in order to be considered nominated, and also the number of signatures needed for a Libertarian to get on the primary ballot. The primary is August 30. On July 1, the party filed its reply brief.

The hearing is 10:30 a.m. in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, room 603. A few newspaper stories have appeared in Arizona lately saying the State Supreme Court upheld the new law. These stories are incorrect. The only action the state courts took was to determine that the party’s candidate for U.S. Senate failed to obtain enough signatures to get on the party’s primary ballot; the state courts have not said anything about the constitutionality of the new law.

Leaders of four British political parties have publicly endorsed using Proportional Representation for the next British House of Commons election. They are the UKIP, Liberal Democratic, Green, and Plaid Cymru Parties. See this story.

June 30 was the New Mexico deadline for petitions for party status. Two groups submitted petitions on the deadline. Those two petitions haven’t been checked yet. They are American Delta Party (supporting Rocky De La Fuente) and Better America Party (supporting the effort to find a mainstream conservative).

Parties already certified are the six parties that were on in 2014 (Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Independent American) and the Party for Socialism & Liberation, which submitted earlier this year.