On February 21, the plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit against the California top-two system filed an amended Complaint. See it here. Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, n.d., 3:24cv-08308.

The American Solidarity Party has joined the case. It has run for partisan offices in California, such as Governor, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and U.S. House. But because it is not a qualified party, when its members run in the primary, the ballot label is “Party preference: none” even though they are registered members of the American Solidarity Party. Therefore, the case now has a new issue, the ballot label issue.

On February 20, the North Carolina Supreme Court declined to hear the dispute over who won the November 2024 election for Supreme Court Justice. See this story. Now the case will go to the State Appeals Court.

On February 19, the city council of Fort Collins, Colorado, voted to ban write-in candidates in city elections.

In 1912, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that all ballots must allow write-ins. Littlejohn v People ex rel Desch, 121 P.159, held unconstitutional a Colorado law that banned write-ins in school director elections. The court said, “Every qualified elector shall have an equal right to cast a ballot for the person of his own selection, and that no act shall be done by any power, civil or military, to prevent it. Such is the mandate and spirit of the Constitution (meaning state constitution), and it thereby vests in the elector a constitutional right of which he cannot lawfully be deprived by any governmental power.”