On September 10, the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest state court, refused to hear Cartwright v Kennedy. This is the case in which the lower state courts had ruled that Kennedy can’t be on the ballot because he didn’t really live at the address he listed on his declaration of candidacy.

Kennedy has a case in federal court in New York, but if he doesn’t win that, New York will be the only state in the nation with only two presidential candidates’ names on the November 2024 ballot, something that the New York newspapers have not mentioned. Kennedy is on in Illinois, and many candidates are on in Tennessee, and Chase Oliver is on the ballot in the other 47 states, along with many other presidential candidates in most cases. Oliver is not on in the District of Columbia either, but Kennedy is.

On September 10, presidential elector candidates pledged to Shiva Ayyadurai filed a federal lawsuit against the Secretary of State of Tennessee. Although their independent presidential petition had enough valid signatures, the Secretary disqualified them because they say they are pledged to Ayyadurai, who was born in India.

The case is Lupo v Tennessee Secretary of State, m.d., 3:24cv-1088. It is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw, an Obama appointee. Here is the Complaint.

See this news story about the oral argument in the Iowa Supreme Court held on Tuesday, September 10. The court said it would decide on or before Wednesday, September 11.