A Colorado state trial court has agreed to expedite the lawsuit Anderson v Griswold, Denver District Court, 2023cv-32577. This is the case in which the plaintiffs seek to bar former President Donald Trump from the Republican presidential primary ballot. The judge has agree to hold a trial in October. Here is the brief that asked for expedited hearing.
On September 13, the National Republican Redistricting Trust filed this amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, in Allen v Milligan, 23A231. This is the lawsuit over the Alabama U.S. House districting plan. The Republican Trust wants the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the decision of the 3-judge U.S. Disrict Court that had ordered new districts earlier this month.
The brief of the Alabama voters who had filed the lawsuit is due September 19.
On August 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, refused to rehear Stein v Federal Election Commission, 21-1213. This is the lawsuit over the government’s attempt to force Jill Stein, Green Party presidential nominee in 2016, to repay some of the primary season matching funds she had been given.
The No Labels Party is continuing to register voters as party members, in the party’s quest to have at least 5,000 registered members by January 2024. See this story. The party’s canvassers now wear T-shirts making it clear they are asking people to join their party.
The story says the party has added 454 new members in September, so they now have 6,609, even after the Secretary of State subtracted about 800 members.
Fusion voting has gotten a fair amount of notice in recent months as new centrist political parties in New Jersey and Michigan have each announced intentions to overturn their state’s ban on fusion as an unconstitutional abridgment of fundamental political rights.
Fusion voting was once legal and common in the United States, but today it is generally unknown or, even more commonly, misunderstood. Specifically, two very different forms of balloting, with very different consequences for minor parties and their members’ associational rights, are often not distinguished. They should be.
A “fusion voting” regime is one in which more than one political party can show its support of a candidate on its own ballot line, with votes cast on that line added to votes on other nominating parties’ lines to produce the candidate’s final total. In the hypothetical below, for example, Claire Farmer appears not only on the Democratic Party line but also on the Common Sense Party’s one.
