There are three federal lawsuits over various Georgia laws that affect political parties, more than any other state.

The Catoosa County Republican Party is in the Eleventh Circuit, trying to win a decision that the party has the right to block candidates from the Republican primary ballot if those Republicans are considered not bona fide Republicans. Catoosa County Republican Party v Catoosa County Board of Elections, 24-12936.

The Libertarian Party is in the Eleventh Circuit over the ballot access rules for U.S. House. Cowen v Raffensperger, 24-13164.

The Libertarian and Green Parties are in U.S. District Court, fighting a campaign finance law that lets individuals give more donations to Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, than to other candidates for those same offices. Libertarian Party of Georgia v Carr, n.d., 1:24cv-05763.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the Indiana ballot access case at its March 21 conference. Indiana Green Party v Morales, 24M68. The Court will decide whether to docket the case. Here is the filing, explaining why the plaintiffs have had such trouble getting docketed.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had a bill in the special session earlier that would have reduced candidate filing fees. Florida has the highest filing fees of any state. But that bill, HB 21a, did not pass. It was an omnibus election law bill that also would have made it far more difficult for initiatives to get on the ballot.

Now that the regular session is about to start, the Governor’s election law ideas are in new identical bills, SB 1414 and HB 1205. Unfortunately, these bills do not reduce the filing fees. The bills are so long and complicated, a mere description of all the changes in the bills takes twenty pages. See it here. The sponsors are Senator Blaise Ingoglia and Representative Jenna Persons-Mulicka.