According to this article, the Working Families now has organizations in nine states and the District of Columbia. The jurisdictions in which it is now organized, but in which it isn’t on the ballot, are New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and D.C. It is a ballot-qualified party in Connecticut, New York, Oregon, and South Carolina.
A U.S. District Court in Helena will hold oral arguments in Ravalli County Republican Central Committee v McCulloch, 6:14cv-58, on Thursday, November 19, at 1:30 p.m. The Republican Party filed this lawsuit last year to prevent members of other parties from voting in its primaries for public office.
Kentucky elects its Governor and Lieutenant Governor on a joint ticket on November 3, 2015. Three teams are on the ballot: Democratic, Republican, and independent. The independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor will debate her two opponents in a televised debate on the evening of October 13. See this story.
On October 13, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Rubin v Padilla, 15-135, the minor party lawsuit that charges the top-two system violates voting rights in the general election. Here is a short AP story.
UPDATE: here is the Courthouse News Service story. The press never covered this case between its filing in 2011 and today. Now, ironically, the case is over and finally the case is being mentioned.
The Bloomberg View editorial board says that the Democratic Party should let Lawrence Lessig into the October 13 debate. Read the editorial here. Lessig has raised substantially more contributions than some candidates who are included in the debate.
