Montana holds its presidential primary on June 7. The only names on the Democratic ballot will be Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They were put on the ballot automatically because they are discussed in the news media. The only candidate who submitted a petition, Rocky De La Fuente, submitted 856 signatures to meet a requirement of 500. Any registered voter is eligible to sign; Montana doesn’t have registration by primary. But election officials said only 362 signatures are valid.

The Montana Republican presidential primary ballot will list Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump.

Another Democrat, Florida attorney Michael Steinberg, petitioned for the Montana Democratic Party primary, but he only got 480 raw signatures so he didn’t bother to submit them.

The Oklahoma Election Board has determined that the Libertarian Party’s petition for party status is valid. This is the first time any party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, has been qualified in Oklahoma since November 2000, except that Americans Elect qualified in 2011 but then didn’t run any candidates. Oklahoma voters may now register into the Libertarian Party and election officials will tally them. Current voter registration forms have a blank line in the part of the card that asks about party affiliation.

The most difficult petition requirement the Libertarian Party must now complete, in order to have its presidential nominee on the ballot in all states in 2016, is the Illinois requirement, 25,000 signatures.

Pennsylvania still won’t permit out-of-state circulators to work on petitions for candidates running in primaries. That policy is being challenged by a lawsuit filed in January 2016, Benezet Consulting v Cortes, m.d., 1:16cv-74. A status conference in the case is set for April 20 at 11 a.m. in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg.

The case had been filed by a Michigan resident who wanted to circulate a Rand Paul primary petition. The judge denied injunctive relief on January 27 on the grounds that the lawsuit had been filed too late, but that is no barrier to her later ruling that the restriction is unconstitutional.