Carl Romanelli, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in 2006, filed a Petition with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on July 15, seeking to re-open the case that imposed approximately $90,000 in court costs against him, to pay for the process by which he was removed from the ballot.

The petition points out that the judge who imposed the fees, did so partly because he felt Romanelli had been uncooperative, by failing to have attorneys and representatives in the various local courts at which his petitions were being checked. The petition points out that the other side would also have been short on such resources, if it had not been for the illegal diversion of public employee manpower.

The Romanelli fees matter is already pending in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court anyway, because the amount is still being contested. The new petition relates to the merits of the existence of the fee itself, rather than the controversy over the amount.

The July 14 issue of Campaigns & Elections has this story about the Commisison on Presidential Debates, which includes some criticism of the Commission for being too opaque. The story is centered around the Barr campaign’s strategy for being included in the debates.

This article, published in Fox News in Georgia, features the account of an elderly couple who recently lost their government Photo-ID in a house fire, and therefore won’t be able to vote in the July 15 primary. The July 15 primary is Georgia’s first election in which the requirement that voters at the polls show government ID is in effect.