Guam is the only jurisdiction that does not have electoral votes and yet which holds a presidential general election. Any presidential candidate may be on the ballot by request. No petition nor filing fee is required.

This year, the ballot will list the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, Green, American Solidarity, Prohibition and Socialist Parties. Also it will include Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., with the “independent” label. Thanks to Tony Roza for this news.

Guam has been holding presidential elections starting in 1980. Because Guam is on the other side of the International Date Line, relative to the United States, the results from Guam can be known by election day morning in the United States.

The Upstate Jobs Party is preparing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the decision Upstate Jobs Party v Kosinski, in which the Second Circuit upheld a New York campaign finance law that lets individuals give more contributions to a major party nominee than an independent candidate or the nominee of an unqualified party.

The party has received an extension of time in which to file the cert petition. It is now due October 31.

On September 18, a Pennsylvania state trial court revived the lawsuit Black Political Empowerment Project v Schmidt. The issue is the Pennsylvania law that requires absentee voters to fill in the date on the back of the envelope. The Commonwealth Court had ruled that such votes may be counted, but then on September 13 the State Supreme Court reversed on procedural grounds, because the Plaintiffs had not sued all 67 counties.

Then the lower court allowed the plaintiffs to amend their complaint and sue all the counties, so the case can be revived. See this story.