The South Dakota Constitution Party is appealing its ballot access loss. See this story. For earlier coverage of the U.S. District Court’s adverse decision, see this earlier coverage.
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On August 27, the federal government refused to exempt Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii and Wisconsin from the new federal law that tells states they must mail overseas absentee ballots no later than 45 days before the election. See this story, on how the denial of the waiver affects Hawaii. It is likely that these states will now consent to count foreign absentee ballots even if they arrive late.
Also see this story. The federal government also denied waivers to the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. However, it granted waivers to Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington.
On August 25, the Socialist Party of Michigan asked for reconsideration in its ballot access lawsuit, Socialist Party of Michigan v Land, in Ingham County Circuit Court. On August 18, the judge had ruled that the party had filed the case too late. The brief for reconsideration points out that Michigan can’t start printing its November ballot yet anyway, because the lawsuit over whether the Tea Party should be on the ballot is still unresolved.
Louisiana held a primary for the Libertarian Party on August 28 for U.S. Senate. Although the results aren’t complete, Randall Todd Hayes so far has 1,529 votes, and Anthony Gentile has 950.
On August 28, West Virginia held primary elections for the Democratic, Republican and Mountain Parties for U.S. Senate. Preliminary election returns are available on the Secretary of State’s web page here. So far, the Mountain Party has the best turnout. Only 13% of registered Democrats appear to have cast a vote in the Democratic primary; only 15% of the registered Republicans in the Republican primary; but 21% of the Mountain Party registrants turned out to vote in the Mountain Party primary.
The figures for all three parties will rise slightly as more votes are counted. The Mountain Party is the West Virginia affiliate of the Green Party. The primary for the Mountain Party had only one candidate, Jesse Johnson, on the ballot. The Democratic primary had three candidates and the Republican primary had ten candidates.