Many newspapers in Arizona story have carried this article, concerning why Arizona election officials determined the top-two open primary initiative doesn’t have enough valid signatures. The reporter interviewed the head of the Maricopa County elections office. Her office counted signatures of registered voters, whether the address on the petition matched the address on the voter registration records or not.
As noted earlier, on the evening of August 21, the ballot-qualified Independent Party of Connecticut nominated Rocky Anderson for President. Here is a story about the party and about Anderson, published in the Bethwood Patch, which covers events in Bethwood and Woodbridge.
See this article, which says the Nevada Secretary of State will ask the Ninth Circuit to put “None of these candidates” back on the ballot. The U.S. District Court Judge still has not written his opinion, however, and it is not clear that the state can appeal before the written opinion is out. The U.S. District Court also refused to stay its own opinion.
On August 22, the Republican Party activists who are challenging the Libertarian statewide Pennsylvania petition asked the Libertarian Party to withdraw the petition, but the Libertarians refused. The Republicans said if the petition were withdrawn today, they would not seek court costs.
Meanwhile, a U.S. District Court is expected to rule soon on whether the Republican challengers will be permitted to intevene in the federal lawsuit that argues the challenge/fee system violates the U.S. Constitution.
On August 22, the New Mexico Supreme Court heard Barrie v Duran, 33755. The Court then ruled that the Secretary of State was wrong to have kept Jon Barrie off the November ballot (as the Independent American Party nominee for U.S. Senate) on the grounds that he wasn’t a registered member of the party that nominated him at the time of the Governor’s Proclamation. Here is the two-page order.
As to the other issue in the case, whether Barrie had enough valid signatures, the court sent that back to the lower court to resolve, but also said perhaps the candidate and the Secretary of State themselves can come to an agreement on how many signatures are valid. See this news story. The decision is not yet posted to the Court’s web page.
