According to this story, former Congressman Tom Tancredo is likely to be the Republican nominee this year for Governor of Colorado. In 2010, he was the Constitution Party’s nominee for the same office, and he received 36.4% of the vote.
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Arkansas held primaries for the Democratic and Republican Parties on May 20. Incumbent state representative Fred Smith was defeated in the Democratic primary in the 50th district. The vote was: Smith 539; Milton Nicks 1,096.
Smith had been nominated by the Green Party in 2012 and had been elected. Although his name was on the only name on the November 2012 ballot, he had two write-in opponents in November. Earlier this year, Smith announced he would seek re-election, not as a Green, but as a Democrat.
This is the second time a Green Party legislator in Arkansas sought to run for re-election in the Democratic primary. Each time, the incumbent lost the Democratic primary. The first instance was in 2010, when Richard Carroll, who had been elected as a Green in 2008, tried to win re-election as a Democrat.
Although Alabama will be one of only two, three or four states with no statewide minor party or independent candidates on the November 2014 ballot, the Constitution Party will be on the ballot in Marshall County, Alabama. Alabama lets parties qualify in just part of the state. The party’s Marshall County petition has been checked.
The Libertarian Party expects to be on the Alabama ballot this year in the Sixth U.S. House district, centered on Birmingham, although it is still waiting for verification of its petition in one county.
Here is a newspaper story about the oral argument on May 21 in the Michigan case that challenges the law that circulators must be registered voters. Here is another story.
On May 20, the South Dakota Secretary of State informed the press that Clayton Walker, independent candidate for U.S. Senate, had been removed from the general election ballot because a Democratic Party official had challenged his petition. Apparently in South Dakota, when a candidate’s petition is challenged, he or she is not even notified about the challenge until it is over.
In April, Walker had been told that he was on the ballot. See this story. Walker did not know about the challenge until a newspaper story reported the news.