On June 23, the Wyoming Constitution Party nominee for Secretary of State, and a donor who wants to contribute to her campaign now, filed a federal lawsuit against Wyoming campaign finance laws. The state laws won’t permit anyone to give a campaign contribution to the nominee of a qualified minor party until after the August 19 primary. Yet the same state laws permit individuals to give to major party candidates running in primaries during the first half of the year.

Here is the Complaint in Wills v Mead. Thanks to the Center for Competitive Politics for the link. This case is very likely to win, because a few months ago the Tenth Circuit struck down similar Colorado laws, and Wyoming is in the Tenth Circuit.

On June 26, SurveyUSA released a poll for the Kansas gubernatorial poll. Scroll down to question five. The results: Democrat Paul Davis 47%, Republican incumbent Sam Brownback 41%, Libertarian Keen Umbehr 5%, undecided 7%.

SurveyUSA Polls generally give the partisan leanings of respondents. This poll shows that 11% of the independents, 6% of the Republicans, but only 1% of the Democrats, favor the Libertarian nominee.

The Libertarian Party is the only ballot-qualified party on the ballot in Kansas, except for the two major parties. The party remains ballot-qualified if it polls 1% for any statewide race. If the Libertarian gubernatorial candidate polls as much as 5%, the party will be entitled to nominate by primary in 2016; otherwise it will continue to nominate by convention. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.

On June 24, Florida held a special election for the U.S. House, District 19. The results: Republican Curt Clawson 66.95%, Democrat April Freeman 29.32%, Libertarian Ray Netherwood 3.73%. The write-ins for the declared write-in candidate, Timothy Rossano, haven’t been counted yet. Here is a link to the Secretary of State’s election returns page.

The last time this seat was up, in November 2012, the vote was: Republican 62.0%, Democratic 35.8%, independent 2.2%.