The Tenth Circuit will hear Kobach v Election Assistance Commission on August 25, Monday. This is the case in which Kansas and Arizona are trying to force the federal government to amend the federal voter registration forms used in those states. The U.S. District Court had ruled in favor of the two states.
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On June 2, the Illinois State Board of Elections determined that the statewide initiative to impose legislative term limits has enough valid signatures to be on the ballot. See this story. However, the measure still faces legal challenges, because opponents say the Illinois Constitution does not permit that type of initiative to be on the ballot.
On June 4, Paul Zukerberg won his lawsuit against the District of Columbia Board of Elections in the D.C. Court of Appeals. See this story. The issue is whether the 2010 ballot measure, which the voters passed, requires a 2014 election for Attorney General. The measure as described on the November 2010 ballot said the first election for that office would be in 2014; but the actual complete language of the bill just said it would be in 2014 or later.
The D.C. Board of Elections says it disagrees with the decision and will ask for reconsideration.
On June 3, Andy Dawkins, who was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor representative from St. Paul, Minnesota, for 15 years, said he is now a Green Party member and that he will be the party’s candidate for Attorney General this year. He submitted more than the required 2,000 signatures. If he gets 5%, the Green Party will regain its ballot-qualified status, which it lost in November 2004. See this story. He served in the legislature 1986-2002.
In 1994, while Dawkins was in the legislature, he said that he would like to be not only the DFL nominee, but the nominee of the New Party, a forerunner to the Working Families Party. When the New Party sued Minnesota to force the state to let two parties jointly nominate the same candidate, the party’s complaint mentioned that it wanted Dawkins to be on the November ballot both as the DFL nominee and the New Party nominee. Dawkins said in a declaration that he would accept both nominations, but he did not become a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit. The lawsuit won in the 8th circuit but then lost in the U.S. Supreme Court. Thanks to Jim Ivey for the link.
