Independent Joe Davis last week was denied a spot on the upcoming November 7 ballot for Mayor of Bloomington, Indiana, because he gathered new voter registrations while petitioning but did not turn the registrations in for processing at least seven days before turning in the petitions that the newly registered voters had signed. Because of this, many signatures of newly registered voters were deemed invalid, and Davis ended up with fewer signatures than he needed to make the ballot. Davis v Morales, Monroe County Circuit Court, 53C08-2308-MI-1910.

Here is a story on this matter.

In 1970, a 3-judge U.S. District Court struck down a New York law that said newly-registered voters could not sign a petition. Socialist Workers Party v Rockefeller. The U.S. Supreme Court summmarily affirmed that decision, so it should be binding on the entire nation. 400 US 806.

This article describes the legal arguments in Castro v Warner, s.d., 2:23cv-598, the pending West Virginia lawsuit over whether former President Donald Trump should be on the Republican presidential primary ballot in West Virginia.

The article has a picture of Castro.

On September 30, John Anthony Castro, the Republican presidential candidate who has filed numerous lawsuits to keep former President Donald Trump off various Republican presidential primary ballots, filed this brief in the Eleventh Circuit in his Florida case, Castro v Trump, 23-12111.

Castro defends his standing and says he will surely be on the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary ballot. New Hampshire lets anyone on a presidential primary ballot with no petition, and the filing fee is only $1,000.