Will McVay, a former Delaware Libertarian Party activist who has left the Libertarian Party, earlier this year noticed that the Conservative Party of Delaware had become ballot-qualified, almost accidentally. The Delaware definition of a qualified party is one with registration of at least one-tenth of 1% of the total state registration. Without any organized effort, the number of people who spontaneously filled out a Delaware registration chard showing themselves as “Conservative” rose high enough last year to qualify that party.

McVay organized it, and this year, under his leadership, the party is running Vermin Supreme for President, Jonathan Realz for vice-president, and Jon Roe for State Senate, district 2. Roe is the only minor party legislative candidate for Delaware legislature this year.

Supreme is also a former member of the Libertarian Party. He had sought the party’s presidential nomination in 2020, placing third on the first ballot.

On September 17, the Montana Supreme Court unanimously kept Robert Barb on the ballot as the Green Party nominee for U.S. Senate. Montana Democratic Party v Montana First Judicial District Court, OP 24-0524. Here is the 13-page opinion.

The Democratic Party had charged that the Green Party did not follow its own bylaws when it nominated Barb, but the Court disagreed. The case is technically still alive, and the opinion today relates to injunctive relief only.

On September 17, the Nevada Democratic Party filed this response in the U.S. Supreme Court in Nevada Green Party v Aguilar and Nevada Democratic Party, 24A262. The brief mostly says there are procedural rules for why the Nevada Green Party’s request should be denied. The Democratic Party only mentions Trump v Anderson in a single sentence, merely asserting that Trump v Anderson doesn’t change anything.

In Trump v Anderson, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously said that the relationship between the people and the presidency of the United States is so strong, Article Two impplicitly bars a “patchwork” in which presidential candidates are on the ballot in some states and not other states. If the Nevada Green Party cannot get on the ballot this year, Nevada, Oklahoma and South Dakota voters will be the only ones in the nation who are barred from physically casting a vote for Jill Stein.