On May 24, U.S. District Court Judge David G. Campbell, a Bush Jr. appointee, heard Libertarian Party of Arizona v Reagan, 2:16cv-1019. The issue is the new law that sharply increases the number of signatures needed for Libertarian candidates to get on their own party’s primary ballot. For technical reasons, the new law does not affect the ability of Green Party candidates to get on the Green Party primary ballot.

The Libertarian Party is asking for emergency injunctive relief, because the deadline for primary petitions is June 1. However, it is possible that the judge could provide relief, not on the number of signatures needed to get on the primary ballot, but relief on the number of write-ins in the primary needed to be nominated. The primary is in late August. The law that increased the number of signatures to get on the primary ballot also increased the number of write-ins in the primary to be deemed nominated.

This article at 538.com summarizes recent national presidential polls that include Gary Johnson.

On May 23, SurveyUSA released a new poll for the California U.S. Senate race. Only five of the 34 candidates were listed: Kamala Harris 31%, Loretta Sanchez 22%, Duf Sundheim 9%, Tom Del Beccaro 9%, Ron Unz 7%, other or undecided 22%.

These results, very similar to poll results in April, suggest that the November 8 ballot will list only two Democrats, with no write-in space. This article in the Washington Times suggests that such an outcome will be bad for both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. Especially significant are the quotes from Dan Schnur, a well-known Californian who has been active at high levels in state government. He has previously been a supporter of the top-two system, but now seems not to be.