The Justice Party is ballot-qualified in Mississippi. On September 5, two days before the deadline, it submitted its candidates for presidential elector. On September 10 the party was informed that one of its candidates for presidential elector is not a registered voter and is therefore ineligible. The party substituted a new candidate on the same day, but the Board of Canvassers rejected the new elector but said that Anderson would still be on the ballot, but if he won the popular vote, he would be disadvantaged because he would only have five presidential electors instead of six.

But, the state then started printing ballots and omitted Anderson’s name from the ballot. However, in the past, Mississippi has permitted presidential candidates to appear on its November ballot even though the candidate did not have a full slate of elector candidates. For example, in both 1972 and 1980 the Socialist Workers Party (which qualified Linda Jenness as its presidential nominee via the independent petition method, and Andrew Pulley in 1980 the same way) did not submit a complete slate of presidential elector candidates, but Mississippi still printed the candidates on the ballot.

The reason one of the electors isn’t registered to vote is that his registration was canceled without his being told that it had been canceled. In 2007 he had been charged with statutory rape because, as a 25-year-old, he had had sex with a 17-year-old girl he had met in a bar. She had a fake ID which said she was over age 18. He plea-bargained, was given no penalty, but apparently that eliminated his voter registration, although he did not know that. Here is a new story. Thanks to Austin Cassidy for the link.

On September 26, the Connecticut Supreme Court issued a one-page order, saying the Republican Party should be listed first on Connecticut general election ballots, this year and for future elections, up to and including the November 2014 election. The dispute hinged on the state’s law that said the order of parties should be governed by how many votes they had polled for Governor.

In 2010, the Republican Party had polled more votes for Governor than any other party. However, the Democrat was elected, because he had the nomination of both his own party and the Working Families Party. The sum of the gubernatorial vote for those two parties was greater than the Republican gubernatorial vote. See this story.

The Pennsylvania line-by-line petition-checking process for the statewide Libertarian Party petition has been proceeding this week, just as it has for each of the two previous weeks. On September 26, enough signtures had been validated by the adversarial process so that the petition now has the needed 20,601 valid signatures. Furthermore, there are still some signatures to go through the process.

It appears that the only possible method for the statewide candidates to be removed from the ballot now would be a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, reversing the Commonwealth Court on whether certain signatures are invalid. The Commonwealth Court had ruled that signatures of voters are valid if that signer moved since re-registering and signed with the new address, whereas the old address is still on the voter registration rolls. This ruling only pertains to voters who move within the county, not voters who move to another county. Assuming the Pennsylvania Supreme Court approves this ruling, or takes no action, then the statewide Libertarians are on the ballot.

The only other parties on the ballot for statewide offices are Democratic, Republican, and Green, and the Green Party petition only listed a presidential and vice-presidential nominee; there are no Greens running for U.S. Senate or the other statewide offices. By contrast, the Libertarian petition nominated candidates for U.S. Senate, Attorney General, and Treasurer.