On April 1, the District of Columbia held primaries for the Democratic, Republican, Green, and Libertarian Parties. Here is a link to the D.C. Board of Elections web page, showing preliminary election returns.

The web page does not have party labels. However, the returns for each party begin with the office of Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. The Democratic returns are first, followed by the Republican returns, the Green returns, and the Libertarian returns. One easy way to see the beginning of the Republican returns is to find Nelson Rimensnyder’s returns (he is the only Republican candidate for Delegate to the U.S. House).

Several hundred Green Party members voted in the Green Party primary. It appears that only about 25 voters participated in the Libertarian primary.

On April 1, the Tennessee Senate State & Local Government Committee failed to pass SB 1091. The vote was 3-3. On a tie, the bill cannot advance. It would have lowered the number of signatures for a newly-qualifying party from 2.5% of the last gubernatorial vote (over 40,000 signatures) to exactly 2,500 signatures.

On March 31, the Iowa Supreme Court issued a two-page opinion that affirms the lower court ruling, and keeps Jonathan Narcisse off this year’s June 3 Democratic primary ballot. The issue was whether his petition had enough valid signatures. He was eleven signatures short because 35 of his petition sheets omitted the office he is running for. The Iowa Supreme Court opinion does not discuss the issue, except to say the lower court was correct. The opinion will not be published.