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The Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. campaign has documented specific threats to his security by at least 34 individuals, and has renewed its request for Secret Service protection. See this story.
Today this essay by Rob Richie was published urging Ranked Choice Voting to be employed at the Democratic National Convention should Joe Biden remove himself from consideration for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. He also writes that RCV should be used in polls and primaries and for internal Congressional elections in future years.
The State Democracy Research Initiative at University of Wisconsin Law School will be hosting its annual review of democracy litigation in the U.S. and state supreme courts, at 3:00-4:15 CT today. It features Pam Karlan, Derek Muller, Gowri Ramachandran, and Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, with Miriam Seifter moderating. The event will be livestreamed, and you can register here.
On July 11, he RFK, Jr./Shanahan Campaign handed in its petition signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State.
UPDATE: see this story.
Presuming that the Campaign has enough valid signatures (I don’t know how many signatures were turned in, but I would be shocked if they didn’t have enough valid signatures of Colorado registered voters), this would mean that Kennedy/Shanahan would be on the ballot as an Independent ticket, and not on the Libertarian Party line in that state, because Colorado does not allow candidate fusion.