On March 8, U.S. District Court Judge Mark R. Hornak, an Obama appointee, permanently enjoined Allegheny County from invalidating local initiatives on the basis that the petitions were gathered by someone from outside Pennsylvania. OpenPittsburgh.org v Voye, w.d., 2:16cv-01075. This case is very old and had been filed in 2016.

Here is the 13-page order, which lists other lawsuit decisions recently that struck down bans on out-of-state circulators, including two in 2022, from Maine and Montana. The order does not declare the Pennsylvania ban on out-of-state circulators to be unconstitutional, only because of procedural reasons, but it makes it clear that if the court had been asked to declare it unconstitutional, it would have been declared unconstitutional.

On March 17, a federal lawsuit was filed against a new Idaho law that removes student ID Cards from the list of approved types of voter ID. March for our Lives v McGrane, 1:23cv-107. The lawsuit was filed the very day the bill was signed into law. Here is the Complaint. Thanks to Democracy Docket for the link.

Ballot Access News
March 2023 – Volume 38, Number 10

1. DELAWARE WILL NO LONGER DEFEND ITS BAN ON MINOR PARTY AND INDEPENDENT JUDGES
2. MISSISSIPPI INITIATIVE MAY BE RESTORED
3. BALLOT ACCESS BILLS
4. STUNNING COURT WIN FOR INITIATIVES
5. BOOK REVIEW: LABORATORIES AGAINST DEMOCRACY
6. TOP MINOR PARTY LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES 1946-2022
7. 2024 INDEPENDENT U.S. SENATE PETITION REQUIREMENTS
8. CALIFORNIA TOP-TWO SYSTEM COULD DISTORT 2024 SENATE ELECTION
9. GEORGIA SPECIAL ELECTION
10. MISSISSIPPI LIBERTARIANS SET RECORD IN 2023 ELECTION
11. NEW FEDERAL CAMPAIGN LIMITS
12. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL