The Philadelphia Inquirer has this story about the New Jersey Socialist Party’s recent state convention in New Brunswick.
The Socialist Party’s lawsuit against New Jersey, over whether voters should be permitted to register into the Socialist Party, was filed on June 25. The state still has not responded. That case is Noble v State, pending in Mercer County Superior Court, number 86-13.
On August 9, two Ohio advocacy groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an Ohio law that makes it a crime for anyone to knowingly or recklessly make a “false” statement about a candidate or a ballot measure. Here is the cert petition. The case is Susan B. Anthony List and Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes v Driehaus, 13-193.
The lower courts had refused to make a decision about the constitutionality of the law. Ever since the law has existed, there have been many lawsuits in both federal and state courts to overturn this law, but the courts invariably find procedural reasons to abstain from deciding whether the law violates the First Amendment.
The August 14 Patriot-News, Harrisburg’s newspaper, has this strong editorial condemning Pennsylvania’s ballot access laws and practices.
The Richmond, Virginia Times-Dispatch has this op-ed, criticizing the League of Women Voters and other organizations that are sponsoring debates. All such organizations, so far, have refused to invite the Libertarian nominee, even though in some neutral polls he has been as high as 7%.
The Federal Election Commission has posted “Federal Elections 2012” on its web page. See here. This is the FEC’s book of election returns. The FEC does an excellent job of compiling the vote accurately for all candidates. The printed version will probably be available in a month.
