On April 15, a state trial court in New Mexico removed Rebecca Dow from the New Mexico Republican primary ballot. See this story. She is trying to be re-elected to the State House, 38th district. She filed pictures of her petition instead of the petition itself. She is appealing to the State Supreme Court. The primary is June 2.
The State Supreme Court hearing is Tuesday, April 21. Jaramillo v Whitehead, S-1-SC-41374.
On April 16, the Hawaii House rejected the Senate amendments to HB 1716, the bill that eases the definition of a qualified party. Hopefully a conference committee will be set up to come to an agreement.
According to this story, the New Mexico Libertarian Party will try to qualify three statewide nominees for the November ballot this year. The party has nominees for U.S. Senate, Auditor, and Justice of the Appellate Court. The party is a qualified minor party, but in New Mexico, even when a party is a qualified minor party, it needs a petition of 2% of the last gubernatorial vote in order to nominate anyone except president. The petition deadline is in late June.
On April 17, the California State Appeals Court summarily refused to put Butch Ware, Green Party gubernatorial candidate, on the June 2 primary ballot. Ware v Superior Court of Sacramento County, C106053.
On April 16, New Jersey held a special election to fill the vacancy in the Eleventh District. The results: Democratic 59.5%; Republican 40.0%; independent .5%.
When this district had last voted, in November 2024, the results had been: Democratic 56.5%; Republican 41.8%; Green 1.2%; independent .5%.
In the April 16, 2026 election, the independent candidate’s ballot label was “Hope for Tomorrow.”
