The Massachusetts Green Party slate of statewide candidates has enough valid signatures and will appear on the November ballot. The candidates are running for Secretary of the Commonwealth, Auditor, and Treasurer. They needed 5,000 signatures and have 7,300 valid signatures. It is very likely that one or all of these candidates will poll at least 3% in November, which will restore the party’s qualified status. If that happens, it will be listed again on the voter registration form, and will be entitled to its own presidential primary in March 2016 as well as a primary for other partisan office in September 2016. Its 2016 presidential nominee will be on the November ballot automatically.

According to this story, the Florida Secretary of State has told a state court that if the court decides that the seven U.S. House districts with new boundaries should be filled in special elections in early 2015, such proposed special elections could not take place until May 2015.

On August 15, Kansas election officials said that Greg Orman’s petition to be on the ballot as an independent for U.S. Senate is valid. Orman is the first independent candidate for any statewide office to qualify in Kansas since 2004, when Michael Peroutka qualified as an independent candidate for President (he was the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee, but the Constitution Party was not on the ballot in Kansas at that time).

Kansas requires 5,000 signatures for statewide independents. Orman submitted somewhat over 11,000 signatures.