The November 1, 2024 print edition of Ballot Access News will carry a chart showing the number of registered voters in each state, in each party.

The chart will also show past national percentages, for each of the last five presidential elections.

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The registration chart in the November 1, 2024 print edition will show a decline in the percentage of voters in the Democratic and Libertarian Parties compared to May 2024. It will show a percentage increase for Republicans, independents, Greens, and the No Labels Party. Also it will show a large increase in the percentage of voters registered in other minor parties, relative to May 2024.

The November 1 print issue will also include a chart for the number of legislative candidates, for each party, in each state, and information comparing candidate totals to past elections.

On October 25, U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw, an Obama appointee, dismissed the lawsuit Lupo v Tennessee Secretary of State, m.d., 3:24cv-1088. This is the Tennessee ballot access lawsuit filed by electors for Shiva Ayyadurai, the independent presidential candidate who was born in India. His Tennessee petition had enough valid signatures but he was kept off the ballot because of his place of birth.

The decision does say that the case is not moot. It depends partly on the similar Nebraska decision of October 17, but the Tennessee decision does not discuss Trump v Anderson. Here is the decision.

On October 17, U.S. District Court Judge John M. Gerrard, an Obama appointee, issued an order in Lauters v Evnen, 4:24cv-03175. It denies the request of Shiva Ayyadurai to be placed on the Nebraska ballot as an independent presidential candidate. The petition had enough valid signatures, but he was kept off the ballot because he was born in India.

The decision says that the March 2024 U.S. Supreme Court decision Trump v Anderson only pertains to the “Insurrection clause” of the 14th amendment, but the Nebraska decision does not quote from Trump v Anderson, and if one reads Trump v Anderson carefully, it does not limit its holding to that part of the Constitution.