On September 12, the Alaska Supreme Court kept Eric Hafner on the ballot as a Democratic candidate for U.S. House. See this story.
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On September 11, the Alaska Supreme Court said it will hear the Democratic Party’s appeal in the lawsuit over whether Eric Hafner should be on the ballot for U.S. House. He is imprisoned and the Democratic Party argues if elected he could not serve, and therefore he cannot run.
The U.S. Constitution residency requirement for candidates for Congress is that the individual be a resident of the state “when elected.” This news story is flawed because it leaves out the phrase “when elected” when it quotes Article One.
On September 11, a Fulton County Superior Court removed all petitioning presidential candidates from the ballot. Pigg v Raffensperger, 24cv-011040, is the decision involving Claudia De la Cruz, the Party for Socialism & Liberation nominee. See it here. There is a similar opinion that removes Cornel West from the ballot.
It says that independent presidential candidates are not suppose to circulate a petition in their own name. Instead they must submit petitions for particular candidates for presidential elector, which would mean that if an independent candidate wanted to run a full slate of electors, he or she would need 16 separate petitions (because Georgia has 16 electoral votes). The opinion also says it is sufficient if the presidential candidate only has one candidate for presidential elector, and with just a single elector candidate, the presidential candidate can be on the ballot.
Ironically, this petition is exactly the opposite of the Pennsylvania elections office, which believes that presidential candidates can’t be on the ballot without a full slate of electors.
The Georgia case is being appealed. This decision has no effect on the Green Party because the Green Party is fighting to place Jill Stein on the ballot under a different law, the one that says a party is on automatically for president if it is on for president in at least 20 other states. Also it has no effect on the Libertarian Party, which is ballot-qualified in Georgia for all the statewide offices.
On September 11, the Iowa Supreme Court refused to put the Libertarian candidates for U.S. House back on the ballot. See this story. The party nominated three candidates for U.S. House by party meeting. The county and precinct conventions that nominated them were held on the same day, but the law says they can’t be on the same day.
UPDATE: here is the decision in Gluba v State Objections Panel, 24-1426.
On September 11, the Elias Law Group, which represents the Democratic Party nationally, threatened to sue the Virginia Board of Elections if the Board doesn’t remove Cornel West from the ballot. See this story. The legislature changed the presidential elector paperwork this year, and the new law went into effect July 1, 2024. The Cornel West used the old forms, which the Board had furnished to them.