Colorado is holding a special State Senate election on September 10, in the Eleventh District in El Paso County. The special election is also a recall election. The ballot asks voters if they wish to recall incumbent State Senator John Morse, a Democrat. If he is recalled, then the ballot asks who should replace him. However, the only name on that part of the ballot is Republican candidate Bernie Herpin.

The Libertarian Party petitioned for Jan Brooks, but on August 27, her petition was ruled invalid. She needed 575 valid signatures and she was told that she only had 408 valid signatures. She had submitted 834. She considered suing, but the election is September 10 and there didn’t seem to be enough time. She is running a write-in campaign and her write-ins will be tallied.

A record-breaking fourteen individuals have petitioned to be on the November 2013 ballot for Mayor of New York City as independents, or as the nominees of unqualified parties. This is in addition to the five individuals who will be nominated by the qualified parties in the September 10 primary. However, not all of the fourteen independent body petitions have as many as 3,750 signatures, so some of the independent candidates will not appear on the ballot. The New York city Board of Elections has a hearing at 1:30 p.m. on September 3 to see which petitions are defective on their face.

The fourteen independent petitions are for:
1. Randy Credico, Tax Wall Street
2. Dan Fein, Socialist Workers
3. Michael Sanchez, Libertarian
4. Carl Person, Reform
5. John Catsimatidis, Liberal (he also submitted a second petition with the ballot label Jobs, Jobs)
6. Mike Dilger, Flourish Every Person
7. Jimmy McMillan, Rent is 2 Damn High
8. Joseph Lhota, Education
9. George McDonald, Common Sense
10. William Melisky, Voice of the People
11. Joseph Melaragno, Affordable Tomorrow
12. Jack Hidari, Jobs & Education
13. Mike Greys, Freedom
14. Walter Iwuachiw, WWTC

On August 30, the California Assembly unanimously passed AB 1419. The bill now goes to the Governor. It moves the deadline for a newly-qualifying party from January to July, in presidential election years.