The Democratic National Committee’s Rules & Bylaws Committee will meet on June 4, and will consider a resolution that would bring about a virtual meeting of delegates to the national convention to, choose the presidential and vice-presidential nominees.  The motive is to comply with the Ohio August 7 certification deadline.

Section 3505.10 of the Ohio election law says the ballot shall list the “names of the candidates for president and vice president nominated as such by the national convention of a political party to which delegates and alternates were elected in this state at the next preceding primary election.”  In order for this idea to be legal, the virtual meeting (probably a zoom meeting of several thousand delegates) would be the official Democratic national convention, not the in-person meeting being held in Chicago in late August.

It is puzzling that the Ohio Democratic Party doesn’t file a lawsuit to overturn the early certification deadline.  Such a lawsuit is overwhelmingly likely to win.  The Democratic Party’s idea robs the actual meeting of much its dignity and importance.

On May 28, the deadline, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,, submitted 135,519 signatures to get on the ballot in New York.  The requirement is 45,000.

On Monday, May 6, the state committees of the Nevada Constitution Party, and the Utah Constitution Party, nominated Joel Skousen for president, even though the national convention of the Constitution Party had nominated Randall Terry for president.

Terry has already obtained ballot access in Utah as an independent candidate, so both he and Skousen will be on in Utah.  However, Nevada has a difficult ballot access law, so Terry is unlikely to qualify in Nevada.

The name of the Nevada Constitution Party is the Independent American Party.  It has been ballot-qualified in Nevada starting in 1974, long before the Constitution Party had been formed in 1992.