On October 14, the Arkansas Libertarian Party filed a federal lawsuit against the law passed this year that says the party (and any newly-qualifying party) must choose all its 2016 nominees (except President) by November of this year. The case is called Libertarian Party of Arkansas v Martin, 4:15cv-635.
UPDATE: here is a short news story.
The Albany Times-Union here calls on the New York legislature to ease ballot access procedures.
The New Jersey Republican Party has dropped its lawsuit to place one of its nominees, Fernando Alonso, on the November 3, 2015 ballot for Assembly, 38th district. Instead it will try to elect him on write-in votes. See this story.
The party withdrew its lawsuit because so many ballots had already been printed without Alonso’s name on the ballot. The winner of the Republican primary for that seat will remain on the ballot, even though he says he is not a candidate. He withdrew earlier this month.
It was reported earlier that Florida Republicans had not invited Republican presidential candidate Jim Gilmore to the November 13-14 fundraiser, which meant that if he wanted to appear on the March 2016 presidential primary ballot, he would need to either pay $25,000 or submit a difficult petition. But Gilmore has now been invited to the Sunshine Summit, and he will attend, so he is now excused from the fee and the petition.
The most prominent Republican candidate who has not been invited is Mark Everson.
According to this story, when Speaker John Boehner resigns, election officials in Butler County, Ohio, will be required to spend approximately $1,000,000 for a special primary and then a special general election to fill his seat. Boehner hasn’t actually resigned yet so the Governor hasn’t yet set the date of a special election. It seems conceivable Boehner may change his mind and not resign, although the article doesn’t discuss that. Butler County is one of six counties in the Eighth District, so presumably the total election administration of the special primary and special election will be perhaps $5,000,000.
The article quotes Butler County Commissioner Don Dixon as saying that Congress should just appoint a temporary member of Congress, but Article One of the U.S. Constitution does not permit anyone to serve in the House who had not been elected by the voters.
