No Republican filed a valid petition to be on the June 2, 2026 New Jersey primary ballot in the Eighth District. The requirement is 500 signatures of party members. See this story.
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ACLU California Action asked ten California gubernatorial candidates to respond to a survey, and then publicized the results. But the group did not ask all California ballot-qualified candidates to participate. It only asked the eight Democrats and two Republicans who have been touted by the media as the leading candidates.
Among those who were asked to participate is Tony Thurmond, who has not been above 1% in any recent poll. Butch Ware, the Green Party candidate, when last included in a neutral poll, was at 2%. But the ACLU did not seek his answers to their questionaire. See the questionaire results here.
On March 24, a poll paid for by the California Democratic Party for the gubernatorial race was released. See the results here.
On March 23, the California Appellate Court refused relief to Joel Gilbert, who had sued to force the Secretary of State to investigate whether Eric Swalwell meets the duration of residency requirement to run for Governor. Gilbert has now asked the State Supreme Court to hear his case. No. S295810.
The U.S. Supreme Court has posted the transcript of the March 23 oral argument in Watson v Republican National Committee, 24-1260. Like all U.S. Supreme Court transcripts, it has an index of every word (other than extremely common words like “the”) spoken. Here is the transcript.
Even though the Libertarian Party of Mississippi is a party to the case, that seems to have made no difference. No attorney and no justice made reference to the Libertarian Party of Mississippi. The index does not include the word “Libertarian.”
The Mississippi Libertarian Party is on the same side as the Republican National Committee. Both parties believe that when Congress in 1872 told states to hold congressional elections on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, that implicitly meant that all ballots must be received by the election administrators by the end of election day.
Some of the justices seemed to concentrate on some extremely unlikely hypotheticals. For example, Justice Gorsuch seemed fascinated by the idea that voters who used the postal service could ask the postal service to return their ballots after that voter had already put the ballot in the mail. He felt this might happen if there was a revelation of a scandal that became known the date after election day.