On September 11, the Iowa Supreme Court refused to put the Libertarian candidates for U.S. House back on the ballot. See this story. The party nominated three candidates for U.S. House by party meeting. The county and precinct conventions that nominated them were held on the same day, but the law says they can’t be on the same day.
UPDATE: here is the decision in Gluba v State Objections Panel, 24-1426.
On September 11, the Elias Law Group, which represents the Democratic Party nationally, threatened to sue the Virginia Board of Elections if the Board doesn’t remove Cornel West from the ballot. See this story. The legislature changed the presidential elector paperwork this year, and the new law went into effect July 1, 2024. The Cornel West used the old forms, which the Board had furnished to them.
On September 11, the Nebraska Secretary of State determined that two independent presidential petitions have enough valid signatures: Jill Stein and Shiva Ayyadurai. However, he said that he would not put Ayyadurai on the ballot because he was born in India.
He also said that he is permitting Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to withdraw.
The qualified parties in Nebraska are Republican, Democratic, Libertarian (Chase Oliver), and Legal Marijuana Now (Cornel West).
On September 10, a Superior Court in Alaska rejected a Democratic Party challenge to the ballot position of Eric Hafner, a candidate for U.S. House and a registered Democrat. See this story. Hafner is in prison and the Democratic Party had argued that if elected, he could not serve.
The Democratic Party didn’t want Hafner on the ballot because they feared some voters might vote for Hafner, instead of the party’s incumbent, even though Alaska uses ranked choice voting.
The case is Alaska Democratic Party v Beecher, S19231.
On September 10, the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest state court, refused to hear Cartwright v Kennedy. This is the case in which the lower state courts had ruled that Kennedy can’t be on the ballot because he didn’t really live at the address he listed on his declaration of candidacy.
Kennedy has a case in federal court in New York, but if he doesn’t win that, New York will be the only state in the nation with only two presidential candidates’ names on the November 2024 ballot, something that the New York newspapers have not mentioned. Kennedy is on in Illinois, and many candidates are on in Tennessee, and Chase Oliver is on the ballot in the other 47 states, along with many other presidential candidates in most cases. Oliver is not on in the District of Columbia either, but Kennedy is.
