Filing has closed for the Nevada presidential primaries. Only the Democratic and Republican Parties have presidential primaries in Nevada.

There are thirteen Democrats and seven Republicans. Here is the list.

The seven Republicans are John A. Castro, Heath Fulkerson, Nikki Haley, Donald Kjornes, Mike Pence, Tim Scott, and Hirsh Singh. Many prominent Republicans who are seeking the Republican nomination did not file for the Nevada Republican primary. This is because the primary does not actually choose any delegates. Furthermore, Nevada Republican Party rules say that anyone who files in the Republican presidential primary is not eligible to compete in the Nevada Republican caucus, which does elect delegates.

The primaries are on February 6; the Republican caucus is February 8. It seems likely that a great proportion of the Republican presidential primary voters will vote for “None of the Above”, because write-ins are not allowed and Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and other high-profile names will be missing from the Republican primary ballot.

A Harvard University project named The Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology (ALARM) Project has software that can randomly draw thousands of district maps within a state to ascertain the effects of gerrymandering on election results.

It found that no matter how the US House districts are drawn in Massachusetts, the US House delegation will include zero or one Republican.

However, its analysis of Florida showed that US House district gerrymandering boosted from 16 Republicans (on average) in the 28 member delegation to the actual number of 20 Republicans elected in 2022.

Here is an article on this project, and thanks to electionlawblog.org for tipping us off on this!

On October 13, U.S. District Court Judge Judith Levy refused to stay her own earlier injunction in Libertarian National Committee v Saliba, e.d., 5:23cv-11074. This is the trademark lawsuit involving two factions of the Michigan Libertarian Party. The faction supported by the Libertarian National Committee last month had won an injunction against the other faction.

The judge says the injunction only applies to activities involving the “sale, offering for sale, distribution or advertising of any good or service”, and that both factions are still free to call themselves the Libertarian Party, aside from the quoted activity. The quote is from the federal trademark law, the Lanham Act. Here is the judge’s order.