On August 21, U.S. District Court Judge Mary Lewis, an Obama appointee, ruled that the Greenville County Republican Party does not have standing to challenge South Carolina’s open primary. The case is Greenville County Republican Party v State of South Carolina, 6:10cv-1407. It had been filed in 2010 and was about to have its first trial, but now the case is dismissed. The state Republican Party dropped out of the case several months ago. If it had remained in the case, standing would not have been an issue.

The lawsuit had been filed to enable the Republican Party to exclude non-Republicans from voting in its primaries. Another issue in the case was the state law that tells parties they may only nominate by convention if three-fourths of the delegates to the state convention vote to use conventions.

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee v Eu that a county political party does have standing to challenge state election laws that restrict political parties. The Greenville County Republican Party will appeal the ruling on standing to the Fourth Circuit.

Professor David Lublin of American University has created electionpassport.com, which has election returns for the lower house of the national legislature of 80 nations. The list of 80 countries does not include some countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and others in which the election returns are already easily accessible.

Some of the entries include elections as old as 50 years ago. The web page is a good resource for knowing the names of political parties that participate in elections in the listed nations.

Ballotpedia is a web page with extensive information about U.S. elections, including election returns. See here for more about Ballotpedia. Recently, Ballotpedia added school district elections to its page, but so far the page only includes the 1,000 largest school districts in the nation. Here is the link to the school district information.