On September 27, various Ohio voting rights organizations, including the NAACP and the League of Women Voters, filed this brief with the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue is whether the Supreme Court should reverse the order of the Sixth Circuit of a few days ago, which required Ohio to continue letting voters cast early votes the first week in October, and the Sunday and Monday before election day, and in the early evening of other days. Thanks to Scotusblog for the link.
On September 18, a Kansas Democratic voter, David Orel, filed a lawsuit in the Kansas Supreme Court, asking that the Court require the Democratic Party to nominate someone for U.S. Senate. Earlier that day, the Kansas Supreme Court had ruled that the original Democratic nominee could withdraw.
On September 23, the Kansas Supreme Court sent the new case to a trial court in Shawnee County. Orel v Kansas Democratic Party, 2014-cv-958 in the lower court. The plaintiff is the father of an official in the Republican Party’s U.S. Senate campaign.
The Shawnee County court will hear the case on Monday, September 29, at 1:30 p.m.
On September 27, the UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) gained its second member of the British House of Commons. See this story. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
The September 27 New York Times has this story about independent and Libertarian nominees for Governor and U.S. Senator in close races. The New York Times has a peculiar reluctance to ever mention the Libertarian Party, and this story is rather unusual for that newspaper. However, the reporter insists on assuming that voters who vote Libertarian would be most likely to vote Republican if the Libertarian weren’t in the race, yet in-depth polls this year have generally debunked that assumption.
Races the article does not mention, but could have, are the Arizona, Illinois, and Massachusetts gubernatorial races, and the Kentucky Senate race.
On September 25, Ohio state officials asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the decision of the Sixth Circuit that reinstates early voting in the first week of October and also reinstates early voting on the Sunday and Monday before election day. On September 26, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan asked the NAACP to respond. The NAACP response is due on Saturday, July 27, at 5 p.m. The case is Husted v Ohio State Conference of the NAACP, 14A336.
