On December 11, Better Ballot Arizona said it would not continue to attempt to put a top-five primary system on the November 2024 ballot.

However, a separate petition drive backed by Make Elections Fair Arizona will continue. That initiative would require that all candidates run on the same primary ballot and would authorize the legislature to pass some system as to how to determine which candidates get on the general election ballot.

Backers of that petition hope that if it gets on the ballot and passes, the legislature would be motivated to authorize ranked choice voting. They need 383,923 valid signatures by July 3. Supporters of this initiative believe that when a top-five or top-four measure qualifies, then opponents attack it by attacking ranked choice voting, so they hope to surmount this public relations problem by not specifically authorizing ranked choice voting. The group has raised $5,000,000.

The Indiana Supreme Court will hear State and John Rust v Morales on February 12, 2024. This is the case over the Indiana election law that says a party can bar someone from its primary ballot if the candidate did not vote in two of the most recent primary elections held for that party. The Republican Party is using that law to try to block John Rust from running for U.S. Senate in May 2024. The lower state court held the law unconstitutional, and the State Supreme Court has not stayed that ruling. So if Rust submits 4,500 valid signatures by February 9, he will be on the ballot unless the State Supreme Court reverses the lower court. Thanks to Mitch Harper for this news.

On December 11, John Anthony Castro, the Republican presidential candidate who has filed many lawsuits to keep former President Donald Trump off various ballots, dismissed his California case. Castro v Weber, e.d., 2:23cv-2172. It had been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Dale Drozd, an Obama appointee.