Massachusetts elects a U.S. Senator on June 25. Three candidates are on the ballot, including Richard Heos, the Twelve Visions Party nominee. This news story seems to be the first one devoted entirely to information about Heos. Here is a second story that gives some information on him.

There have been many polls in this race, and it appears that every poll asks voters if they intend to vote for the Republican nominee or the Democratic nominee, and does not even give respondents an opportunity to say they are voting for Heos.

The New York legislature adjourned early in the morning on Saturday, June 22. Many election law bills failed to pass. They include the National Popular Vote Plan, the “friendly ballot act” (to make the ballot easier to read), and bills to lower the number of signatures, to establish public funding for state office, to make it easier for voters to change parties, to repeal the unconstitutional law that the circulator is a resident of the district, to rotate names on the ballot in New York city primary elections, and to change the Wilson-Pakula Act.

There may be a special session later this year which could include these and other election law bills.

The editor of the News Journal of Clinton County, Ohio, has this detailed and interesting analysis of Ohio election law concerning which voters are independents and which are party members. Ohio law on this matter is easily the most arbitrary and confusing of any state. Ohio does not ask voters to indicate party membership (or independent status) on voter registration cards. But unlike other open primary states, it tries to categorize individual voters as either party members or independents, and uses these categories to exclude candidates from ballots based on so-called party membership or independent status.