On September 10, the Louisiana Secretary of State found the Prohibition Party paperwork (which had been sent to the state Insurance Department) and will put that party on the presidential ballot. Thanks to Kim Knox for this news.
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Primaries (for office other than president) were held on September 9 in Delaware, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia.
In New York, the Republican primary for U.S. House, 13th district (Staten Island and part of Brooklyn) was a contest between Robert Straniere, Jim Wyne, and Carmine Morano. Straniere won. But Paul Atanasio, a registered member of the Conservative Party who had wanted to run in the Republican primary, will be on the November ballot as the Conservative Party nominee. Also, Carmine Morano (who was only a write-in in the Republican primary) will be on in November as the Independence Party nominee.
ThirdPartyWatch reports that Dean Barkley easily won the Minnesota Independence Party primary for U.S. Senate.
On September 9, a Democratic county official in Mississippi filed a lawsuit against state officials, over the design of the November 4, 2008 ballot. The ballot contains two U.S. Senate elections. The election for the Class II Senate seat is near the top of the ballot, under the presidential part of the ballot. However, the other U.S. Senate seat, the Class I seat, is at the very bottom of the ballot, after the local races. See this article. UPDATE: a state judge has told the state not to print its ballots until this lawsuit is adjudicated. See this. Thanks to Rick Hasen for this update. The case is Berger v Barbour, 251-08-694cib.
The Prohibition Party filed its Louisiana presidential electors, and its filing fee of $500, well before the September 2 deadline. The party sent its paperwork Express Mail, and can prove that all the documents arrived at the Elections Division on August 29. However, even though the package was correctly addressed, it was misdelivered to another state agency. That other state agency, instead of forwarding the mail to the Elections Division, marked it “return to sender.” UPDATE: Louisiana now says it will put the Prohibition Party on the ballot.
The Associated Press has this story about Ron Paul’s September 10 press conference. The story erroneously says Ralph Nader only got .3% of the vote in 2004. Actually he got .4%.