According to this story in the Hartford Courant, Connecticut Secretary of State Sysan Bysiewicz, a Democrat, will have her deposition taken on March 30, for the lawsuit over whether she is qualified to be Attorney General (the office she is seeking this year). There is a lawsuit because a Connecticut statute says the Attorney General must have been actively practicing law during the past 10 years. Bysiewicz is an attorney but it is not clear whether she has been actively practicing law, in her capacity as Secretary of State for almost 8 years.

Secretary Bysiewicz has asked permission to have her own video photographer tape the proceedings. It had already been arranged that her deposition will be taped, but by a camera that is only trained on Bysiewicz. She wants another tape, in which the camera is trained on the attorney for the Republican Party as he asks the questions.

Illinois HB 6000 would make ballot access considerably more difficult for the non-partisan post of Chicago Alderman. The House had set it for a second reading floor vote on March 25, but then it was removed from the calendar and sent back to the Rules Committee.

California Courts are still working on adjudicating various complaints about the wording of statements about issues and candidates in the government-printed Voters Handbooks. On March 29, a Superior Court in Santa Clara County made changes to candidate statements. See this story, concerning the statements of a candidate for District Attorney.