The Justice Party has a meeting via conference call for members of its National Steering Committee, on October 5, 2013, to discuss the party’s future. The party only polled 43,018 votes for President in 2012, and it is only ballot-qualified currently in Florida, Mississippi, and Vermont. However, it won two ballot access cases (in California and Vermont) and has a third pending in Hawaii.

The party had some publicity recently in Wyoming. This Star-Tribune story mentions that a Justice Party activist has moved to Wyoming and hopes to organize the party in that state.

On the afternoon of September 9, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed AB 4237, a bill that the legislature had passed in June. The bill moved the state election (for 2013 only) from November 5 to October 16. Since the Governor already set the special U.S. Senate election for October 16, moving the election for state office would have saved $12,000,000 in election administration costs. September 9 was the deadline for the Governor to act. If he had done nothing, the bill would have taken effect.

The veto message said that voters would be confused if the state election were moved from November to October. Of course, if he had signed it soon after it passed, there would have been ample opportunity to educate voters that there was only going to be one election this year, in October. See this story.

On September 3, Arnold Davis filed his opening brief in the Ninth Circuit in Davis v Guam, 13-15199. The issue is who should be allowed to register to vote, in an upcoming election over the future political relationship between Guam and the United States. Guam law says such a vote will be held as soon as at least 70% of the eligible voters have registered to vote. The Guam law also says that no one can register for this election unless they are descended from people who lived on Guam in 1899. The intent of that part of the law is to confine the election to the Chamorro people who were the traditional residents of Guam for centuries into the past.

Davis is a full-time resident of Guam who is permitted to vote in other Guam elections, but not the upcoming election on the status of the island because his ancestors didn’t live in Guam. The U.S. District Court ruled against him on the grounds that because the date of the election has not been set, and may never be set, his case is not ripe.