California law lets 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds fill out a voter registration form, which is activated when the individual turns age 18. On September 26, the Secretary of State released a registration tally for these pre-registered voters. Their partisan affiliation is: Democratic 42.6%; Republican 13.7%; American Independent 3.7%; Libertarian 1.3%; Peace & Freedom 1.0%; Green .7%; independent and miscellaneous 37.0%.
On September 26, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. filed this response in Kennedy v Berger, in the U.S. Supreme Court. This is case over whether he should be restored to the New York ballot.
on September 26, the Jill Stein campaign was able to communicate with the Ohio Secretary of State’s office the information that the so-called “withdrawal” of the Stein ticket was not signed by anyone with any connection to the Stein campaign itself. Therefore, the piece of paper should have been ignored. Instead the Secretary of State took it seriously and said that votes for Stein won’t be counted, even though she is on the ballot. Hopefully the information provided to the Secretary of State will result in reversing that policy.
On September 26, the U.S. Supreme Court docketed Ayyadurai v New Jersey Democratic Committee, 24-342. The issue is whether Shiva Ayyadurai, an independent presidential candidate who was born in India, should have been left on the New Jersey ballot. He had enough valid signatures but was removed because of Article Two qualifications. However, five times in the past, New Jersey has printed the names of presidential and vice-presidential candidates who were either under age 35 or who were not born in the United States.
Here is the filing.
Ayyadurai had filed the case with the U.S. Supreme Court on September 20. It is odd that the court took so long to put it on the docket.
On September 26, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced a bill to expand the U.S. Supreme Court to 15 justices. Here is his press release explaining the bill. It has links to the text of the bill. It has many other provisions as well.
