On October 28, David Gill filed this reply brief in Gill v Scholz, 22-1653, the case over the Illinois 5% petition for U.S. House candidates running outside the major parties.
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On November 1, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a two-page order in Ball v Chapman, 102 MM 2022. The court unanimously ruled that postal ballots in which the voter forgot to put the date on the outer envelope are void. They find that state law requires the date, even though all completed postal ballots are date-stamped by election officials when they are received by the elections office.
On November 1, the Eighth Circuit issued an opinion in Dakotans for Health v Noem, 21-2428. The opinion agrees with the U.S. District Court, and says the U.S. District Court had been correct to enjoin some restrictions on paid initiative circulators in South Dakota. The challenged law requires paid petitioners to disclose their name, residential address, email address, phone number, and sex offender status prior to circulating any ballot measure. It requires that all this information be put into a publicly available directory. It voids all signatures collected by any circulator who does not obey this law. And it requires that if any information changes, the circulator must update the information within seven days.
The decision is by Judge L. Steven Grasz, and is also signed by Judges David R. Straus and Jonathan A. Kobes. All are Trump appointees. Here is the 17-page opinion. Thanks to Derek Muller for this news.
Here is a ballot for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, for November 8, 2022. If one scrolls down to County Attorney, one sees that Nick Sarwark is on the ballot twice, once as a Libertarian, and once as a Democrat. The ballots lets Sarwark voters decide whether to vote for him as a Libertarian or as a Democrat.
Similarly, Richard Manzo is on the ballot for County Treasurer twice, and voters can choose which label for him as well.
However, when the election officials tally the votes, they don’t release the separate totals on the election returns website. They merely release the total for each candidate. Presumably, though, anyone can obtain the separate totals on request.
If you click on the link to see the ballot, you must then choose a town. Choose a town in Hillsborough County, such as the town of Hillsborough. The list of towns is in alphabetical order.
This blog post enables readers to see a Maine sample ballot for the November 8, 2022 election. Maine uses ranked choice voting in general elections for federal office, but ordinary voting for state and local office. Maine puts the ranked choice races on one side, and the ordinary races on the other side, of the ballot. See it here.