Last month, two gubernatorial candidates filed petitions to be on the primary ballot of the Arizona Independent Party, Teri Hourihan and Hugh Lytle. On April 3, Hourihan filed a lawsuit in state court, alleging that Lytle doesn’t have enough valid signatures. Hourihan v Lyttle, Maricopa County Superior Court, cv2026-014149.

News reports say Lytle submitted approximately 6,000. The petition requirement is 1,771. It is unknown how many signatures Hourihan submitted. The signers must be either registered members of the party, or voters who are not registered in any qualified party.

On April 1, Laura Culp, the Woodward County, Oklahoma, Assessor, filed to run for her first full term as a Libertarian candidate. She has been the County Assessor since last year, when the previous incumbent retired and Culp was appointed to fill the vacancy. Culp is a registered Libertarian, so she will be on the November ballot as the Libertarian nominee. The only other person who filed for County Assessor is a Democrat, Tiffany Jobe.

Samuel Ronan is a candidate for U.S. House from Ohio’s Fifteenth District. He is trying to be on the Republican primary ballot, but the election board kept him off because it was believed he is not a sincere member of the Republican Party. On April 2, U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Morrison refused to grant him an injunction putting him on the ballot. He has appealed to the Sixth Circuit.