This newspaper story says there are more than a dozen state court lawsuits around New York over whether particular Women’s Equality Party candidates should be removed from the November 3, 2015 ballot. In the meantime, election officials are worried about the schedule for printing ballots.

As of April 1, 2015 (the last tally available), the Women’s Equality Party only had 12 registered members. The other party that was created in the November 2014 election, the Reform Party (which is completely controlled by Republicans) only has 10 registered members. See the state tally here. Thanks to Reginald Neale for that link.

Canada holds its parliamentary election on October 19. The mainstream press has paid little attention to the election. Here is a comprehensive Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about the election, emphasizing that any one of three parties could win.

The Arkansas Libertarian Party expects to file a lawsuit against the new law (passed in 2015) that says it must choose all its nominees by November 2015 for the election that is a year away. The Libertarian Party nominates by convention for the 2016 election. The two major parties nominate for all office in March 2016, in a primary, so the law’s timing is highly discriminatory. No state in U.S. history, until now, has ever required any type of party to choose all its nominees in the odd year before the election year. It is difficult to imagine how Arkansas will defend the law.

The new lawsuit will probably be filed September 30, 2015.