On July 28, Jeff Amason, the only Libertarian who petitioned to be on the ballot this year for the Georgia legislature, filed a lawsuit in state court to gain a place on the ballot. Even though he successfully obtained the signatures of 5% of the number of registered voters, he is still being kept off the ballot because his wife notarized most of his petition sheets, and she herself circulated a few sheets, although she did not notarize the sheets she circulated. Amason’s campaign is incorporated, and his wife is an officer of that corporation. Georgia law says a corporate officer can notarize documents involving the corporation. The lawsuit is Amason v Kemp, in Superior Court in Fulton County.

Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large for The American Prospect, and an opinion writer for the Washington Post, has this piece about top-two primaries. The linked article is from the Madison, Wisconsin daily newspaper, but the article also appeared in the Washington Post. Also, the piece appeared in The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest newspaper, on July 25.

Also, see this piece in Roll Call by Nathan L. Gonzales. Gonzales points out that Schumer doesn’t seem to know that Virginia has open primaries.

On July 28, attorneys for New Jersey filed this brief in Balsam v Guadagno, U.S. District Court, 14-1388. The lawsuit was filed by some voters who argue that states cannot pay for partisan primaries. The state brief says the plaintiffs don’t have standing, and that even if they did, nothing in the U.S. Constitution prevents states from paying for partisan primaries. The state’s brief doesn’t deal with the point that, arguably, the New Jersey Constitution prohibits taxpayer money from being used for partisan primaries. But, a comprehensive case based on that point would be better off being filed in state court in any event.