On June 15, an attorney for the Michigan Libertarian defendants filed paperwork with a U.S. District Court to represent those defendants. He is Nick Curcio. The case is Libertarian National Committee v Saliba, e.d., 5:23cv-11074.
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According to this news story, there are at least four local elections in Monroe County, New York, in which Republicans are hoping to get the Working Families Party nomination as well, even though the WFP local officials oppose these candidacies.
On June 16, the Ohio Supreme Court issued a 4-3 opinion in State ex rel One Person One Vote v LaRose, 2023-Ohio-1992. The majority said the state may hold an election in August 2023 for voters to decide whether to make it more difficult for constitutional initiatives to get on the ballot and to pass. There is no statute that authorizes the timing of such an election, but the majority said it is implicit in the state constitution.
Here is the decision.
On June 16, Oregon Republican Senators ended their boycott of the legislative session, so that bills can now advance in the Senate. This gives an opening to pass HB 2004, which would provide for ranked choice voting for statewide and U.S. House elections in both the primary and general elections. The bill had passed the House on May 23 by 35-24. It is now in the Senate Rules Committee.
The Los Angeles Times has this op-ed by Nancy Jacobson, founder of No Labels. It is titled, “Democrats and Republicans Met to Subvert a third party option. So much for caring about what voters want.”