Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island are holding their primaries for non-presidential office today, September 10. The fact that these three states are able to administer elections with such a late primary is a lesson for the rest of the country, especially states that feel it is sensible to print general election ballots in the first half of September.
On September 9, the North Carolina Supreme Court voted 4-3 to allow Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to withdraw his name from the ballot. In North Carolina he was the nominee of the We the People Party. The party supported his desire to withdraw. It is still a ballot-qualified party with one legislative nominee and one nominee for county office. But after the election it will go off the ballot, because obviously there is no chance it will poll as much as 2% of the vote for either President or Governor. The alternate method for staying on the ballot won’t work either since it no longer has a presidential nominee. The alternate method requires being on the ballot for its presidential nominee in at least 35 states.
The case is Kennedy v North Carolina State Board of Elections, 235P24.
Here it is, hot off the press on Monday, September 9.
Here is a registration link for this webinar to be hosted at 2PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, by the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University.
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear the Iowa Libertarian Party’s ballot access on Tuesday, September 10, at 10 a.m. The issue is whether the party’s three U.S. House candidates should be on the ballot. The party held the county and state conventions on the same day, but the objecters say that is illegal. See this story.
