The Kansas Secretary of State’s office says all the qualified parties will retain their status in November 2024.  The law is ambiguous in years when the only statewide office on the ballot is President.  2024 is such a year.  The recent interpretation says there is no need for parties to poll 1% of the vote for president.  The vote test applies every two years if there is a statewide office (other than president) on the ballot.  So if there were a U.S. Senate race this year, parties would need to poll 1% for that.

The law was interpreted in the same favorable way in 2000.  But it was interpreted in a more restrictive way in 2012, the last time the issue arose.

The qualified parties are Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, No Labels, ad United Kansas.

On August 6, an administrative law judge in New Jersey said that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., should remain on the New Jersey ballot.  He said Kennedy is not a “sore loser.”  See this story.

On August 2, a Notice of Motion and a Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Intervene as Plaintiffs in the Team Kennedy v. Berger, et al. lawsuit was filed in US District Court in the Southern District of New York.

In that litigation, Team Kennedy challenges (1) the law stating that a petition signer can sign only a petition for one candidate for a given office, (2) the law that prohibits petition signers from listing their village instead of their city or town, (3) the requirement that an Independent presidential candidate’s slate of electors be listed on his or her petition when partisan candidates do not need to name electors until after their national nominating conventions, (4) the requirement to gather 45,000 valid signatures in just six weeks, and (5) the prohibition of paying petition circulators and witnesses on a per signature basis.

The Motion states that the LP & GP have interests aligned with Team Kennedy but are not adequately represented by Team Kennedy’s attorneys, therefore, the ability to intervene in this litigation with their own counsel is being asked of the court.

Here are the documents filed on behalf of the Libertarian and Green parties.