On November 19, oral arguments were held in Ravalli County Republican Central Committee v McCulloch, 6:14cv-58. The issue is Montana’s law requiring all qualified parties to nominate candidates for public office in open primaries. See this description, which suggests that U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris is skeptical of the Republican Party’s case.
UPDATE: here is a second story, although it doesn’t have as much detail as the first story.
Law Professor Derek Muller here writes that New Hampshire law, if read carefully, does not allow the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission to decide presidential qualifications. Professor Muller says if the New Hampshire law were followed faithfully, Secretary of State Bill Gardner should make the decision. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
This subject is in the news because the Ballot Law Commission is set to decide whether Ted Cruz should be on the Republican presidential primary.
The Washington Times has this article about the progress of various Republican presidential candidates in getting on primary ballots. None of the candidates discussed in the article are required to ever get more than 5,000 valid signatures.
The Federal Election Commission has published Federal Elections 2014. The book is 121 pages and has election returns for primary and general elections, for Congress, in 2014. See it here. The same book will be in paper, and the paper version will be available free sometime in December 2015.
The FEC has been publishing similar election return books starting in 1980. In presidential election years the books include presidential election returns.
The Daily Beast has this lengthy story about Lyndon LaRouche. The story is triggered by the news that LaRouche prefers Martin O’Malley for President. LaRouche founded the U.S. Labor Party in 1973, but in 1979 he dissolved it and became a Democrat. He is age 93.
