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.
The New Jersey State Elections office has posted an unofficial list of candidates for the congressional elections of November 2024. For U.S. Senate, there are five petitioning candidates, the nominees of the Libertarian, Green, and Socialist Workers Party, and two independent candidates, incumbent Robert Menendez and Patricia Mooneyham. See here.
For U.S. House, the Green Party has nominees in all twelve districts, the first time that party has ever run for all seats in New Jersey. The Libertarian Party has seven; the Socialist Workers Party has one. There are also thirteen independents. See here.
According to a source within the Democratic National Committee, the party expects to nominate for president and vice-president in advance of the Chicago August convention, even though there is no longer any publicly revealed reason to do so. As already noted, Ohio altered the deadline on Sunday, June 2, so there is no longer any problem with certification deadlines.
Nothing on the Democratic Party’s national website mentions this, and no news story I have found explains why the party is doing this. Some speculate that the party is afraid of protests at the Chicago convention, so if the party has already nominated with a virtual roll-call, perhaps that might make the convention venue less appealing as a protest zone.
