Here is a general update in a story from Axios.
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On December 8, 2023, California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D. issued an advisory to County Clerks and Registrars of Voters of that state’s list of “Generally Recognized Presidential Candidates. The list contains the names of the candidates that the Secretary of State intends to place on the ballot at the March 5, 2024, Presidential Primary Election. The Secretary of State has determined that these candidates met the “generally advocated for or recognized” criteria as set forth in Elections Code section 6000.1.”
This may be just a preliminary list of candidates.
Here is the story from Semafor.
Indiana law required candidates running in a political party’s primary election to have voted in the last two primaries for that party or get the permission of his or her’s county chair to run in a primary. John Rust met neither of those criteria, so he sued the state of Indiana in Marion County Court. On Thursday, December 7, 2023, the judge ruled that law to be unconstitutional in violation of the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution.
This ruling does not place Rust on the GOP primary ballot automatically, as petition signatures must be gathered and other requirements met. Still, this is an important victory for the people of Indiana and future candidates for public office.
On December 6, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. House member Ayanna Pressley (D-Ma.) introduced bills in each house of congress to provide that ex-felons may vote in all federal elections. Here is the text. The bills don’t have bill numbers yet.
Thanks to Democracy Docket for the link.