On September 14, a lower state court struck down Missouri’s new law, which requires voters to show government-issued photo ID before voting at the polls. Jackson Co. v State of Missouri, Cole Co. Dist. Ct. 06AC-CC587.
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The Vermont Libertarian Party has 7 candidates for the State House of Representatives this November. Five of them also tried to win major party nominations at the September 12 primary. Four of them managed to do so: Bob Wolffe, David Atkinson, Hardy Macia, and Benjamin Todd. They will be listed on the November ballot as “Libertarian, Republican.” The Libertarian who tried to win a Democratic nomination, Kevin Volz, did not succeed.
At the New York primary on September 12, allies of Lenora Fulani recruited thousands of candidates to run for Independence Party county committees in each borough of New York city. It appears that enough of them were elected, so that Fulani forces will control the Manhatten, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island committees. Earlier this year, the anti-Fulani statewide party leadership dissolved the Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx county committees. However, the state leadership cannot dissolve county organizations if they are “properly constituted” (meaning they elected precinct committeemen in a majority of precincts at a primary election). Therefore, all of these county (borough) organizations will be revived, except for the Bronx one.
Fulani allies are still far from having a majority of the state committee, however.
On September 15, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said it will hear the Green Party’s case over whether 67,070 or 15,494 signatures are needed this year for a statewide minor party or independent candidate petition. It all depends on whether the statewide judicial retention election of November 2005 was an “election”. In a retention procedure, candidates do not run against each other. Instead, the incumbent justice is on the ballot with a “yes” and a “no” next to his or her name, and the voters decide whether to retain the justice.
Charlie Morrison, the independent candidate for US House in Ohio’s 15th district, has a hearing in the 6th circuit set for September 20. He had enough valid signatures but was still kept off the ballot because he had voted in this year’s Republican primary and had run for party office in that primary.