Early this year, the New Mexico Secretary of State’s office said in writing that the Green Party is still a ballot-qualified party. However, since then, the Director of the Bureau of Elections has resigned, and the new Director does not believe that the Green Party is ballot-qualified. The new Director did say orally that if the Green Party showed him the letter from the past Director, saying the party is qualified, he would honor it. However, now he is equivocating. The Green Party will be consulting an attorney.

The New Jersey Libertarian Party filed a lawsuit in state court on October 10, complaining about the fact that even though one of its candidates for Assembly, Jason Scheurer, qualified for public funding, the November 2007 ballot will say that his Republican and Democratic opponents are “clean”, whereas the ballot will not say that the Scheurer is “clean”.

On October 9, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Jones v Montana University System, 07-223, the case involving a gubernatorial debate in 2004 sponsored by the state university. The debate sponsors only invited the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates, so the Green and Libertarian candidates had sued the university, but had obtained no relief.