This week Wyoming Public TV is hosting debates for all the statewide races. All ballot-listed candidates are included in all debates, except that the Democratic nominee for U.S. House was apparently excluded. He is Richard Grayson, who lives in Arizona sometimes, and New York city other times, and who reportedly has never set foot in Wyoming. See this story about the debates, which include the nominees of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Constitution Parties, and one independent candidate.

Wyoming is in the 10th circuit, which ruled in 2000 that states cannot enforce residency requirements on candidates for Congress.

Here is the Connecticut sample ballot for the November 4, 2014 election. Connecticut, like Delaware, New York, and most counties in New Jersey, no longer uses mechanical voting machines. But those four states continue to design general election ballots as though the mechanical voting machines were still in use. This ballot is unfair to the independent gubernatorial candidate, Joe Visconti, because the column of candidates for Governor lists the two major party candidates, followed by a blank space, and then Visconti is in the row below the blank space. There are probably many voters who will not even notice Visconti’s name.

On October 15, the Arkansas Supreme Court invalidated the states’s requirement that voters at the polls show certain types of government photo-ID. The decision is unanimous. Here is the decision, Martin v Kohls, cv-14-462.

Four justices voted to invalidate the law because it violates State Constitutional guarantees on the right to vote. Three other justices voted to invalidate it on the grounds that the bill implementing the law did not pass with a two-thirds majority in each house of the legislature. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.