On June 25, a Colorado State District Court put Jennifer Coken on the Democratic primary ballot for State House, 4th district.  Her petition had been invalidated because the Secretary of State had ruled that she didn’t have enough valid signatures.  But, the Judge restored signatures of voters who had signed Coken’s petition, and had also signed a petition for one of her opponents.

The Secretary of State had credited the signatures of voters who had signed both petitions to Coken’s opponent, because the opponent had submitted her petitions first.  But, the judge said there is no statutory authority to do that.

The judge also restored some signatures that had been invalidated because her circulator had moved during the petitioning process.  See this story.  The Secretary of State plans to appeal to the State Supreme Court.

Kathleen Curry, Colorado’s only independent state legislator, who is being blocked from the November ballot, expects to appeal the adverse decision in Riddle v Daley.  Curry petitioned for a place on this year’s ballot as an independent, but even though the petition has enough valid signatures, she is barred from the ballot because she didn’t leave the Democratic Party until December 2009.

The law that bars her has already been relaxed by this year’s session of the legislature, but the new, more relaxed law doesn’t take effect until 2011.

Neil Combee, who wanted to run in Florida’s Republican primary for the legislature, but who accidentally wrote a check to pay his filing fee that was one cent less than the precise amount required, will not sue to get on the ballot.  See this story.