On September 3, the Pennsylvania Green, Libertarian, and Constitution Parties filed expert evidence in Green Party of Pennsylvania v Aichele, the pending case that challenges various aspects of the Pennsylvania ballot access petition process. The expert, handwriting analyst Michelle Dresbold, shows (1) an expert can detect instances of the forgery of many names on a petition by a single individual, without the need to look at the signatures voter registration records; (2) the handwriting of many individuals changes drastically over time, so that checking the signatures on petitions with signatures on voter registration records is sometimes unreliable; (3) furthermore, signatures change when the signature is made very rapidly, as is often the case when signing a petition, relative to signing a voter registration record; (4) the Pennsylvania SURE record of the appearance of signatures on voter registration forms is faulty because it is electronic and the technology is faulty.

This evidence will be used to criticize the current Pennsylvania petition-checking process.

On September 4, a We Ask America poll was released for the Illinois gubernatorial race. The results: Republican Bruce Rauner 46%; Democrat Pat Quinn 37%; Libertarian Chad Grimm 7%; undecided 10%. If the Libertarian Party gets 5%, it will be ballot-qualified for all office. Since the vote test was set at 5% in 1931, only two parties other than the Democratic and Republican Parties have held that status: Illinois Solidarity 1986-1990 and Green 2006-2010.

Congressman John K. Delaney (D-Maryland) has introduced HR 5334, to require all elections for U.S. House to use the top-two system. The bill also mandates that election day in November would be a federal holiday, but the bill does not require primary voting day in each state to be a holiday, nor does the bill set up a national primary day.