New Jersey held primaries on June 4. In Atlantic County, election officials were not supposed to have opened envelopes containing absentee ballots until May 31, but they did open them earlier. On Friday, June 7, a state court ruled that the ballots should still be counted. See this story.
The Kansas Secretary of State has rejected the nominations for state legislative office of the No Labels Party. The Secretary determined that the nomination documents were not signed by the actual state chair of the party. See this story.
On June 5, the Florida Secretary of State recognized the Reform Party as a ballot-qualified party. The Secretary of State’s website does not yet list the party, but it typically takes that office a week to update the list of qualified parties.
Because the Reform Party has nominated Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for president, he is now on the Florida ballot with no need for a petition. Thanks to Hector Roos for this news.
Steve Peace, a former California state legislator from San Diego, who was always a member of the Democratic Party while he was in office, has endorsed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for president. Here is his explanation, posted on Independent Voters News website.
Peace was in the legislature for twenty years. Here is his wikipedia page.
According to this story, an individual named Kris Van Meteren claims to be the state chair of the ballot-qualified No Labels Party of Kansas, and has nominated some candidates for the legislature. However, neither the national office of No Labels, nor the Kansas Secretary of State, recognizes him as the true state chair. The Secretary of State recognizes Glenda Reynolds as the state chair. Reynolds, and the entire No Labels organization, does not wish to run any candidates.
Van Meteren incorporated the Kansas No Labels Party to bolster his claim to be the party’s state chair, but courts have ruled in some states that political parties cannot be incorporated.
