On February 7, 2024, the State of Indiana filed its Reply Brief with the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit regarding the Indiana Green Party and Libertarian Party of Indiana’s ongoing litigation over the Hoosier State’s ballot access laws.
Here is the Reply Brief from the State of Indiana.
Thanks to Oliver Hall of the Center for Competitive Democracy for letting us know and for his work on this case and the Texas case.
On February 1, 2024, the State of Texas filed its reply brief to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the ongoing litigation concerning that state’s ballot access laws.
Here is the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court Brief from the State of Texas.
Thanks to Oliver Hall for forwarding this brief to us.
On February 8, the Republican Party of the U.S. Virgin Islands held a presidential caucus, using Ranked Choice Voting. See this Fairvote analysis of the results.
On February 8, a federal lawsuit was filed against several Utah laws that make it difficult to qualify initiatives. Are You Listening Yet PAC v Henderson, 2:24cv-104. Among other things, the lawsuit challenges the ban on out-of-state circulators, and the February 15 petiition deadline. The plaintiffs have been circulating an initiative relating to the Utah state flag, and they are asking for injunctive relief to help them qualify that initiative for this year’s ballot. Here is the Complaint.
On February 8, Pakistan held an election for National Assembly. The party that had won the 2018 election, PTI, had been removed from the 2024 election ballot for a technical violation of election laws. Therefore, PTI ran its nominees as independent candidates. Although not all votes have been counted, it appears that PTI’s candidates, running as independents, outpolled all of the other parties. Independents won at least 96 of the 237 seats. See this wikipedia article.
