According to this story, a lower state court judge in South Carolina has ordered the Republican Party to hold a supplemental primary in one legislative district, and a second such lawsuit is pending. The story mentions the federal law that requires overseas absentee ballots to be mailed at least 45 days before any primary or any election, but fails to note that the law only pertains to federal office.

Several other states and territories are holding September primaries, including Delaware, Guam, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and New York (but the New York primary is for state and local office, not Congress). UPDATE: here is a much more detailed article.

The Republican National Convention will convene on August 27, but then will immediately recess until Tuesday, August 28. The presidential nomination will be on Tuesday. See this story. The reason for the delay is the possibility that tropical storm Isaac might interfere with the convention. Thanks to Chet Chin for the link.

Three candidates are on the Missouri ballot for U.S. Senate: incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill, Republican nominee Todd Akin, and Libertarian nominee Jonathan Dine. Yet a recent Mason-Dixon poll conducted for the Post-Dispatch and New 4 asks voters, “If the 2012 general election for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat were held today, would you vote for Claire McCaskill, the Democrat, or Todd Akin, the Republican?” See here. Scroll down.

The results of that poll, we are told, are: 50% for McCaskill, 41% for Akin. Presumably, 9% of the voters either said “I don’t know” or said they are voting for the Libertarian, or at least for someone else. One wonders why pollsters don’t present the actual list of candidates to respondents, especially when there are only three. An earlier Rasmussen Poll did present respondents with the choice of McCaskill, Akin, or “someone else” and that polled resulted in 9% voting for “someone else.” See here for Nate Silver’s discussion of that poll, written before the Post-Dispatch Poll results had been released. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link to the Mason-Dixon Poll.

Here is an interview with Jonathan Dine, conducted by Eric Dondero at LibertarianRepublican.