According to this story, the Conservative Campaign Committee PAC has launched a campaign to persuade voters to write-in State Senator Larry Grooms for U.S. House, in South Carolina’s upcoming special election in the First District. Grooms disavows the effort. However, South Carolina allows write-ins (for all office except President) and has no requirement that write-in candidates file a declaration of write-in candidacy. Therefore, there is nothing Grooms can do to stop the campaign for him.

The BLT (Blog of Legal Times) has this story about the April 25 decision of the Federal Election Commission to continue in force the exemption for the Socialist Workers Party from campaign finance disclosure.

Also, here is a story from the Wall Street Journal.

On April 11, the Vermont Senate passed S86, an omnibus election law bill. Among other things, it moves the independent candidate petition deadline from June to August. The bill is now pending in the House Government Operations Committee. Specifically, the bill says the independent petition deadline is three days after the primary.