On Saturday, March 18, the New Mexico legislature adjourned. It did not pass SB 73, the bill to let independent voters choose a partisan primary ballot without first joining that party.
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The Bemidji Pioneer, a newspaper in the northernmost part of Minnesota, has published this letter to the editor from Rebecca Whiting. The letter criticizes Democrats in the Minnesota legislature for making ballot access worse.
Reason Magazine has this article about the pending request of the New York Green and Libertarian Parties to the U.S. Supreme Court over ballot access.
On March 17, the California Secretary of State released new registration data. This is the last tally California will produce until January 2024. Here is the data. Relative to the last tally in October 2022, all the qualified parties gained slightly in registration, except for the Republican Party. The Common Sense Party, which is not ballot-qualified, declined. The percentage of voters who are independents declined.
The percentages are: Democratic 46.89%; Republican 23.83%; American Independent 3.61%; Libertarian 1.07%; Peace & Freedom .57%; Green .442; independent, miscellaneous and unknown 23.60%.
The percentages in October 2022 were: Democratic 46.87%; Republican 23.85%; American Independent 3.54%; Libertarian 1.05%; Peace & Freedom .56%; Green .439%; independent, miscellaneous and unknown 23.69%.
The Common Sense Party has 24,454 registrants; in October 2022 it had 25,715.
On March 14, a lawsuit was filed against the new District of Columbia law that lets non-citizen adults vote in Washington, D.C. elections for local office. Hall v D.C. Board of Elections, superior court, 2023-CAB-001544. Here is the Complaint. Thanks to Democracy Docket for the link.