David Harshbargr, a former Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts and the former Attorney General of that state has joined the United Independent Party. See this story.
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The Hill has this piece by Jill Stein, on general election presidential debates.
On June 2, the government of Canada, which is controlled by the Liberal Party, agreed with Canada’s other parties that a new commission to study instant runoff voting and proportional representation should itself be composed proportionally. Previously the government insisted that a majority of the members be Liberals. See this story.
John Pickerill, chair of the Montgomery County, Indiana, Republican Party, has left the Republican Party. He has become a Libertarian Party nominee for state legislature this year. See this story.
On June 2, the Third Circuit issued a 31-page opinion in Constitution Party of Pennsylvania v Cortes, 15-3046. It says that the U.S. District Court decision last year, invalidating Pennsylvania’s system that puts petitioning groups in danger of having to pay huge fees if their petitions are held to be invalid, was correct.
The Third Circuit says it is not deciding what to do about this situation for the 2016 election. The U.S. District Court in this same case had recently ruled that only the Third Circuit can decide whether to put the Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties on the ballot this year with no petition. But that was because the Third Circuit had not yet ruled on the fees issue. Now that the Third Circuit has ruled, it is likely that the issue of how to handle things this year will return to the U.S. District Court.