New Jersey is Still Enforcing Ban on Out-of-State Circulators Despite Law Having Been Declared Unconstitutional in 2021

According to this story, New Jersey state courts are still enforcing the state’s ban on out-of-state circulators. The story is about a petition challenge to a Democratic candidate for U.S. House, Sue Altman. She submitted approximately 1,000 signatures and she needed 500. She survived the challenge, but all her signatures collected by out-of-state students were invalidated.

However, a U.S. District Court declared the residency requirement for circulators to be unconstitutional in Arsenault v Way in 2021. Here is that decision. 3:16cv-01854.

One Gubernatorial Candidate Running in the Arizona Independent Party Primary Challenges the Petition of the Other Gubernatorial Candidate

Last month, two gubernatorial candidates filed petitions to be on the primary ballot of the Arizona Independent Party, Teri Hourihan and Hugh Lytle. On April 3, Hourihan filed a lawsuit in state court, alleging that Lytle doesn’t have enough valid signatures. Hourihan v Lyttle, Maricopa County Superior Court, cv2026-014149.

News reports say Lytle submitted approximately 6,000. The petition requirement is 1,771. It is unknown how many signatures Hourihan submitted. The signers must be either registered members of the party, or voters who are not registered in any qualified party.

Laura Culp, Woodward County Assessor, Files to Run for a Full Term as a Libertarian in Oklahoma

On April 1, Laura Culp, the Woodward County, Oklahoma, Assessor, filed to run for her first full term as a Libertarian candidate. She has been the County Assessor since last year, when the previous incumbent retired and Culp was appointed to fill the vacancy. Culp is a registered Libertarian, so she will be on the November ballot as the Libertarian nominee. The only other person who filed for County Assessor is a Democrat, Tiffany Jobe.

Twenty-two States Sue to Block New Executive Order Creating a Federal List of Persons Eligible to Vote

On March 31, President Trump issued an Executive Order that authorizes creation of a federal list of U.S. residents eligible to register to vote. The Order also directs the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver absentee ballots to anyone who is not on the federal list. On April 3, twenty-two states filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts to overturn the Order. State of California v Trump, 1:26cv-11581. Here is the Complaint. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee.