A poll of Muslim voters shows 29.4% support Kamala Harris and 29.1% support Jill Stein. See this story. Scroll down to the paragraph headed “Pro-Palestinian voters continue to show discontent.”
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On August 30, the Ninth Circuit upheld a federal law that won’t permit a U.S. citizen living in Guam to vote as an absentee voter from his or her former residence inside one of the fifty states. Borja v Nago, 22-16742. Here is the opinion.
The vote was 2-1. The decision is by Judge Milan D. Smith, a Bush Jr. appointee. It is also signed by Judge lucy H. Koh, an Obama appointee. Judge Richard A. Paez, a Clinton appointee, dissented and wrote that the law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The lower court had also upheld the law.
A quirk of federal law lets U.S. citizens who live in foreign countries vote, assuming they had in the past lived in one of the fifty states. They are absentee voters in the last state in which they had lived, even if they hadn’t lived in the U.S. for decades. An even stranger quirk lets U.S. citizens who live in the Northern Mariana Islands do the same.
The Ninth Circuit frequently grants rehearings en banc, and this case has a fair chance of getting a rehearing.
On August 30, the Michigan State Court of Appeals upheld the decision of the lower state court, keeping Cornel West on the ballot as an independent. However, it is believed the Democratic Party will now ask the State Supreme Court to reverse the order. See this story. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the news.
On August 30, the Kansas Secretary of State said that the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. petition has enough valid signatures. No one else used the Kansas independent procedure for president this year. The qualified parties are Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, No Labels, and United Kansas, but the latter two parties aren’t running anyone for president.
On August 28, an Iowa panel of executive officers with jurisdiction over elections removed all three Iowa Libertarian nominees from the ballot. They said the party improperly held its county conventions on the same day it held its state convention. The party expects to sue to overturn the decision.