Here is a link to the CNN election returns page for West Virginia.
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The North Carolina legislature re-convened on May 13, and will sit for at least six weeks, possibly eight weeks. If the state court in Raleigh should declare the ballot access laws for new parties unconstitutional, in the next week or so, the legislature will perhaps quickly revise the law. It is somewhat fortunate that the legislature is in session. That will make it somewhat more realistic for the attorneys for the Libertarian and Green Parties to persuade the court to declare the existing law void. The court will thus not need to wrestle with the question of what state policy should be, if the existing law is indeed declared unconstitutional.
Cindy Sheehan, independent candidate for U.S. House from California’s 8th district (most of San Francisco), has 900 signatures on her petition to get on the ballot. She needs 10,198 valid signatures by August 8 (3% of the number of registered voters). She has a campaign headquarters at 1260 Mission Street. See her web page. No one has qualified as an independent for U.S. House from California since 1996. California’s requirement for independent candidates for U.S. House is the 4th most difficult in the nation (only Georgia, Illinois, and North Carolina have more severe requirements).
Missouri elections officials say they will be finished checking the Constitution Party’s petition by the end of May. New Mexico officials say they will be finished checking the Constitution Party’s petition by May 16.
The North Carolina Libertarian Party will submit its petition to the State Board of Elections on May 15. The counties have already checked them so the party knows that it has enough valid signatures.
Arkansas has been holding presidential primaries since 1976. They had always been in May (except in 1988, when they were in March), but in 2005 the legislature moved the presidential primary from May to February. Now many in the state are wishing they had kept it in May, since the state’s February primary this year attracted almost no attention. Representative Nathan George, a Democrat, says he will introduce a bill next year to move presidential primaries back to May. See this story.