U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs will hold a trial in Greenville County Republican Party v State of South Carolina, 6:10-cv-1407. The trial is set for August 1, 2012, almost a year away. In the meantime, both sides will identify expert witnesses and conduct discovery. Because this case will take so long to reach a decision, the status quo will prevail for the 2012 presidential primary. All voters will be able to vote in the 2012 Republican presidential primary, even though the party, not the taxpayers, is paying for administration of the primary.

The New York Post reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be a witness in the trial that opens September 12, in the matter of the money that Bloomberg contributed to the Independence Party and which the Independence Party then passed on to John Haggerty. Haggerty was to use the money to help the Bloomberg re-election campaign in 2009, but according to the indictment, he did not use the money on the campaign, but diverted it to his own use. Thanks to the Independent View for the link.

During the early summer of 2011, the Americans Elect web page posted a new national signature count for its various statewide petitions every week. This national total represented the sum of how many signatures had been collected around the nation on its various state petitions. But the July 28 posting of 1,747,557 had not been increased since then, during August. But on August 30 the web page showed a new national total, 1,755,707, an increase of only 8,150 signatures during August.