On August 4, the Chuck Baldwin faction of the American Independent Party of California sued the California Secretary of State, over her decision last month to list Alan Keyes as the American Independent Party presidential nominee. The case was filed in Superior Court in Sacramento, and is called James King v Debra Bowen, with Ed Noonan as the Real Party in Interest (that means it is a 3-cornered lawsuit).
Five of the six candidates who want to run for Palm Beach, Florida School Board, district one, trusted the Elections Department and wrote filing fee checks for $1635.40, which the Department said was the correct amount. However, the true amount was $1635.48. One candidate paid the right amount and he tells the press he may file a lawsuit to keep all his oppoonents off the ballot. See this story.
On August 5, an ATV/Zogby 4-candidate presidential poll was released. It shows: McCain 42%, Obama 41%, Barr 2%, Nader 2%, other and undecided 13%. The poll was conducted July 31-August 1 and is based on 1,011 voters.
On August 4, Ralph Nader asked the Commonwealth Court to reconsider its order from 2006, that says he owes $81,000 to the people who challenged his 2004 petition. The request was made, based on the revelations of July 10, 2008, that the people who challenged his petition were illegally receiving state government resources.
Carl Romanelli, who was the 2006 Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, had made a similar request for rehearing on July 15, 2008, with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The Hartford Courant of August 3 has this article about the Connecticut Working Families Party. The reporter placed stress on the fact that the party only has 15 registered members. However, no one knows how many registered members the party has in Connecticut. That is because the WFP is still not a qualified party throughout the state of Connecticut; instead it is only qualified in certain legislative districts and a single US House district (although it has candidates this year in all 5 congressional districts, it had to petition in 4 of them and is not yet a qualified party in those 4 districts). We won’t know the party’s registration total in the entire state until any tally taken in 2009.
