Both sides have filed briefs in Townley v State of Nevada, in U.S. District Court, 3:12cv-310. Plaintiffs are voters, and two Republican presidential elector candidates, who argue that “None of the Above” must either be made binding, or must be removed from the ballot. Nevada prints “None of the Above” on primary and general election ballots for statewide office. But when NOTA wins, it has no effect.

The plaintiffs argue that the voters who choose NOTA are not being treated equally, because a vote for NOTA is a vote but the state isn’t giving that vote any legal effect. Here is the state’s brief, and here is the plaintiff’s brief.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors had been expected to vote on July 10 on whether to put a ballot measure on the November ballot, concerning Ranked Choice Voting. But the vote will be on July 17 instead.

Mexico held presidential and congressional elections on July 1. Seven parties won seats in the lower house of Congress. See this story. Mexico uses proportional representation for elections to the lower house of Congress.

No session of the U.S. House of Representatives has ever had as many as seven parties represented. The Congress elected in 1914, as well as the one elected in 1916, had five nationally-organized parties represented: Democratic, Republican, Progressive, Socialist, and Prohibition. No Congress since then has had representatives from that many parties.