A U.S. District Court in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will hold a hearing in Libertarian National Committee v Saliba, e.d., 5:23cv-11074, on Wednesday, August 23, at 1 p.m. The Libertarian National Committee seeks a preliminary injunction against one faction of the state party, to prevent that faction from holding itself out as the Libertarian Party of Michigan.
Fifteen Delaware legislators have introduced HB 215, which moves the non-presidential primary from September to the fourth Tuesday in April. It also requires parties that nominate by convention to have chosen their nominees by March 15, and to submit their names by April 1. Current law allows the names to be submitted by September 1.
The bill is discriminatory because minor parties (those which nominate by convention) would need to have chosen their nominees more than a month before the major parties.
Minor party presidential and vice-presidential nominees would not need to be filed until the Tuesday after that party’s presidential convention.
On June 21, the Arizona Supreme Court released an opinion in Arizona Petition Partners LLC v Thompson, CR-22-0154. It said that existing Arizona law does not ban paying initiative circulators a bonus if they are high producers. Also, the law does not ban paying high-producers a higher hourly wage.
The state court of appeals had ruled that the law does ban bonuses, and does ban paying a higher wage to high-producers. It had then declared the law to be so restrictive as to be unconstitutional. But because the State Supreme Court did not interpret the law to be highly restrictive, it said the law is constitutional.
So, it is still illegal to pay initiative circulators on a per-signature basis in Arizona, but there are ways for initiative proponents to reward high-performance workers. The opinion is twelve pages and is unanimous.
On Friday, June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court released four opinions, but did not release the election law case, Moore v Harper, from North Carolina. The next decision day is Tuesday, June 27.
On June 20, Arlington County, Virginia, used ranked choice voting for the Democratic primary ballot for County Board. Here is the ballot. Scroll down to see the County Board section. This is the first ranked choice voting ballot in the history of Virginia government ballots. Six candidates were running for the Democratic nomination; two were to be chosen.
