On August 26, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a three-page order in Strange v Wisconsin Election Commission, 2024AP164-OA.  This is the lawsuit over whether Jill Stein should be on the ballot.  The Green Party is a qualified party in Wisconsin.  A very old election law says qualified parties should nominate their presidential elector candidates on October 1 at the State Capitol, and the meeting should be attended by that party’s state legislators and others who are nominees for the legislature that year.

The challenger said because the Green Party doesn’t have any candidates for state legislature this year, it can’t legally nominate presidential elector candidates.  This ignores the historical fact that as long as this law has existed (probably for over 100 years), the state has never said that this is the only way qualified parties may nominate presidential elector candidates.

The order says, “We determine that the petitioner is not entitled to the relief he seeks.”  The petitioner in this case is David Strange, who is a staffer for the Wisconsin Democratic Party.

A hearings officer for the Iowa Secretary of State will preside on Wednesday, August 28, in the challenge to the Libertarian Party’s nominee for U.S. House, Third District.  The party nominated  Marco Battaglia by meetings, which the law allows.  The Republican Party challenged him because it said the Libertarian Party didn’t hold county conventions, even though it held local meetings and a state convention.

The Libertarian Party says it did hold county conventions.  They were co-terminous with the state convention.  At the state convention, county conventions were convened, and residents of particular counties caucused together.

On August 23, Nancy Dahlstrom withdrew from the U.S. House race in Alaska, following the August 20 top-four primary.  She had placed third.  She is a Republican and the current Lieutenant Governor.  Under a precedent set in 2022, this should mean that fifth-place finisher John Wayne Howe, the Alaskan Independence Party candidate, will appear on the November ballot.

U.S. House is the only statewide office on the ballot in Alaska this year, other than president.