Here is a newspaper story about the New Mexico Forward Party’s ballot access lawsuit.

The story is inaccurate when it says the party’s statewide nominees needed 7,123 signatures each. The law plainly says that they each needed 14,246 signatures.

Here is a link to President Trump’s speech of July 16. It lasts 26 minutes.

Trump is correct that U.S. election procedures are faulty, but he did not mention the true faults. One fault that gets no publicity, but is absolutely true, is that some states won’t tally write-in votes even for declared write-in candidates. There is no principled defense for the policies of those states. Write-in votes for presidential candidates who have filed a declaration of write-in candidacy are valid votes, yet election officials refuse to tally them just to save trouble and expense. This is a problem in the District of Columbia, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Virginia.

On July 15, a U.S. District Court Magistrate heard Day v New Hampshire Secretary of State, 1:26cv-499. This is the case in which independent U.S. Senate candidate Aaron Day was barred from the ballot because he hadn’t finished updating his voter registration address on the day he filed his Declaration of Candidacy. See this news story.

The state’s rationale for keeping someone off the ballot, explained in the article, has no relevance whatsoever to candidates for U.S. House, because a candidate for U.S. House need not live in the district in which he or she is running. And of course the state’s argument has no relevance for a statewide office either. The state’s rationale only applies to state legislative races, and this case has nothing to do with state legislative races.