According to this news story, Wendy Rosen, the Democratic nominee for U.S. House, Maryland First District, is withdrawing from the race. However, the deadline has passed for her to remove her name from the November ballot. The First District is a swing district. The district elected a Democrat in 2008 but a Republican in 2010. The boundaries of the district are somewhat different this year than they were in 2012. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.

UPDATE for September 11: the Democratic Party will choose a write-in candidate, because the party feels it can’t ask voters in the district to vote for Rosen. The last time a major party got behind a write-in candidate for U.S. House was in Texas in 2006, in the 22nd district. Shelley Sekula Gibbs was the endorsed Republican choice. She polled 61,938 write-ins, a very good total for a write-in candidate, but she lost to the Democrat, Nick Lampson, who received 76,775 votes. Tom Delay had been permitted to withdraw so there was no Republican candidate listed on the ballot. In the current Maryland race, Wendy Rosen remains on the ballot, so the Democratic vote will be split.

Connecticut Television Network will broadcast the State Supreme Court hearing live, in the lawsuit Republican Party of Connecticut v Merrill. The hearing will be at 10 a.m. eastern time, Wednesday, September 12. The issue is whether the Democratic Party or the Republican Party should be listed first on the 2012 and 2014 ballots. State law says the party that got the most votes for its gubernatorial candidate in 2010 will be listed first. That is ambiguous, because the Democratic vote for Governor was a smaller number of votes than the Republican vote for Governor. But the Working Families Party cross-endorsed the Democrat, and if one adds the votes of the Democratic Party and the votes of the Working Families Party, then that total is larger than the Republican vote.

The only independent presidential petition submitted in North Dakota this year is the Jill Stein petition, and the Secretary of State has already determined that it is a valid petition. She will have the ballot label “Green”. This is the first time the Green Party presidential nominee has been on the ballot in North Dakota since 2000.

Qualified parties in North Dakota are the Democratic, Republican, Constitution, and Libertarian Parties. Therefore five presidential nominees will be on the ballot.

It appears that Stein will be on the ballot in 36, 37, 38, or 39 jurisdictions. Still undetermined for her are Alabama, Nebraska, and Vermont. She will definitely not be on in twelve jurisdictions: Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming.