On August 22, the Virginia State Board of Elections notified the Libertarian Party of Virginia in an e-mail that the party has enough valid signatures, statewide and in each district. Furthermore, two days later, the Libertarians turned in even more signatures.

However, on August 31, an attorney representing the Republican Party of Virginia notified the Board that the party believes the vast majority of the Libertarian petition signatures are invalid. Virginia has no procedure for any outside group to challenge a finding of elections officials that a petition is sufficient. If the Virginia Republican Party wishes to dispute the finding of the Board, it must sue the Board. The Libertarians had turned in approximately 16,000 signatures. The law requires 10,000, with 400 in each U.S. House district.

The State Board also said recently that Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party has enough valid signatures. The State Board apparently hasn’t told the Green Party yet whether or not it has enough valid signatures.

See this story, which describes the first 2012 Jill Stein presidential ads made for television.

On August 31, a lawsuit was filed in the Arkansas Supreme Court to remove the medical marijuana initiative from the November ballot. See this story. The lawsuit does not maintain that the initiative did not have enough signatures. Instead, it says if the voters passed the measure, that would violate federal law.