Here is a link to the Indiana presidential primary results.
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Here is a link to the West Virginia Secretary of State’s web page, for election returns for the May 8 primary. The only opponent of President Obama, a federal inmate named Keith Judd, has 40% as of the moment this posting is being made.
Judd is in prison in Texas. Here is an earlier story about him. He got on the West Virginia Democratic ballot by paying a filing fee of $2,500.
On May 8, the Ohio legislature passed SB 295, which repeals the omnibus election law bill of 2011. This means (assuming the Governor signs the bill, and it is considered certain that he will) that the statutory petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties goes back to what it was in 2006 when it was held unconstitutional by the 6th circuit. That deadline is November of the odd year before the election in presidential years, and January of the election year in mid-term years.
It has now been over five years since the old deadline was held unconstitutional, and yet the Ohio legislature has not fixed the law. In the meantime, Ohio federal courts and the Ohio Secretary of State have been helpful in permitting five minor parties to appear on the ballot.
In contrast to Ohio, the Tennessee legislature last month passed a bill for an August petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties. The Tennessee legislature acted only two months after the old deadline was held unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Cameron Currie of South Carolina will hold a hearing on Thursday, May 10, in a case filed to get the 180 Democratic and Republican candidates on the June 12 primary ballot. See this story. This case is likely to result in a good precedent. Judge Currie is a Clinton appointee. In 2006 she put the Working Families Party on the ballot. The state had tried to keep it off, on the grounds that it should have held local and state conventions in the spring of 2006, before the party had even got on the ballot.
On May 8, the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills that, if enacted in time, would give relief to the 180 Democrats and Republicans running for state and local partisan office who are now off the June 12 primary ballots. The candidates did not file a Statement of Economic Interest on time. The bills, SB 1512 and HB 3392, would restore ballot access for candidates who did not file the statement by March 30, but who had attempted to file it by April 20. See this story.
The Senate will take up the bills on May 9, in the afternoon. The bills do not have unanimous support and the primary is only a month away, so it is difficult to tell what will happen. Some of the candidates are attempting to get on the November ballot as independents, but the independent petition requirement in South Carolina is extremely difficult. It is 5% of the number of registered voters, although it is capped at 10,000 for statewide office and U.S. House. None of the affected candidates are running for federal office; the requirement only pertains to state and local office.