A professional survey firm has been hired to ask each delegate to the Libertarian Party national convention whom he or she intends to support. It is not known who is paying for the survey.
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USA Today has this article about the order of candidates on New Jersey primary ballots. The New Jersey primary, for President and all other partisan office, is June 7. The article explains that in most counties in New Jersey, the ballot has two dominant columns, and every candidate who doesn’t qualify to appear in one of the two visible columns is then placed in a third column, over the right, that is not immediately visible to many voters.
For presidential primary candidates, the odds of being in one of the two better columns depends on whether that presidential primary candidate is supported by various candidates running for partisan county office in the same primary. The article highlights Bernie Sanders supporters who filed to run in the Democratic primary for various county offices, not because they want the job, but to help Sanders appear in one of the better columns. No other state has such a ballot format policy for primary elections.
General election ballots in most counties in New Jersey have the same characteristic. Democratic and Republican nominees each have their own conspicuous column, and every other candidate is squished into the third column with no partisan party heading.
The Atlantic has this story by Clare Foran, discussing internal dissent within the Republican Party. The article also says that the Constitution Party and the Libertarian Party are being noticed by these unhappy Republicans. Thanks to Peter Gemma for the link.
On May 12, the Arizona Libertarian Party asked a U.S. District Court to enjoin the new, higher petition requirements for Libertarian candidates who wish to get on the Libertarian primary ballot. The case is Arizona Libertarian Party v Reagan, 2:16cv-1019. Here is the 28-page brief.
The primary is August 30, 2016. The deadline for primary petitions is June 1.
According to this story, a proposal to recommend secession for Texas almost got enough support in a Texas Republican convention committee to be voted on by all the delegates.