On April 15, the Libertarian Party and the Green Party asked a U.S. District Court in Arizona to reconsider the decision of last month that upheld Arizona voter registration forms. Arizona law provides all qualified parties with their own mandatory primary. But the voter registration form only gives a checkbox to the two largest parties in the state. There has never been any other state that regularly prints up primary ballots for all qualified parties, and yet lists only two of them on the voter registration form.

On April 15, the Montana House Administration Committee heard testimony on SB 408, and passed it. This is the bill to ask the voters in 2014 if they want to establish a top-two primary. The bill passed 12-7, on a party line vote, with all Republicans voting “Yes” and all Democrats voting “No.” The state chair of the Republican Party testified in favor of the bill.

The San Francisco Business Times has this story about Nat Goldhaber, who was the Natural Law Party’s vice-presidential nominee in 2000. The article implies that Goldhaber is a billionaire today. It also confirms that he is still a supporter of Transcendental Meditation.