The Federal Election Commission has compiled a list of all congressional candidates who are running in the November 2022 election, including declared write-in candidates. See it here. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
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An Illinois gubernatorial election poll released on October 14 shows these results: Democratic 49%, Republican 34%, undecided 9%, Libertarian 8%. See this story.
On October 11, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the Secretary of State to let the Democratic Party replace its nominee for State House, 94th district. State ex rel Conrath v LaRose, 2022-Oh-3594. At the August 2022 primary, only one Democrat had been on the ballot, and he withdrew shortly after the primary was over. The Secretary of State refused to let the Democratic Party substitute a new nominee, because the primary results had not yet been certified. But the Democratic Party couldn’t wait for the certification, because if it had, the substitution action would have been too late. It was obvious what the results of the primary would be, because there had been only one candidate on the primary ballot, and no declared write-in candidates.
The vote was 4-3. The majority and the minority opinions are quite heated. There have been many 4-3 election law decisions by the Ohio Supreme Court this year; that court is very polarized. Here is the Opinion.
At its October 14 conference, the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to hear Fitisemanu v U.S., 21-1394. This is the case over whether the language of the Fourteenth Amendment means that persons born in American Samoa are citizens, even if they don’t go through the naturalization process. The case was brought in Utah by a Samoan-born adult who wanted to register to vote in Utah, where he lives. He was denied the ability to register to vote because he was born in American Samoa.
The Fourteenth Amendment says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” However, Congress passed a law long ago that says they are not citizens, unless they go through naturalization. They are only U.S. “nationals.” They do have U.S. passports.
No news about the U.S. Supreme Court action will be available until Monday, October 17, at the earliest. The Court might ponder the case but make no decision for a while.
An OHPI Poll for the U.S. Senate race in Arizona shows Democrat Mark Kelly at 46%, Republican Blake Masters at 33%, and Libertarian Marc Victor at 15%. See this story. The poll was released October 12. As of October 14, it is the latest poll for that race.
Reason has this commentary about the poll.