On April 27, Butch Ware, the Green Party candidate for Governor of California, filed a federal lawsuit against the California law that requires gubernatorial candidates to furnish the last five years of their income tax returns. The Complaint also charges that the law was enforced in a discriminatory manner this year. Ware v Weber, e.d., 2:26cv-1643. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Magistrate Sean C. Riordan. Here is the Complaint.

UPDATE: the Magisrate has asked that the case be assigned to a U.S. District Court Judge, and it has been reassigned to U.S. District Court Judge William B. Shubb, a Bush Sr. appointee.

At the April 7 election for Wisconsin local offices, six of the fifteen winners to the Iron County Board of Supervisors were write-in candidates. See this story.

on April 17, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed HB 67. It lowers the cost of obtaining the list of registered voters from approximately $37,000, to exactly $1,000.