The Second Circuit heard oral argument on September 6, 2022, in Libertarian Party of New York State Board of Elections, 22-44. Even though it was being expedited, there is no ruling yet, and the ballots have already been printed. This suggests a possibility that the Second Circuit might enjoin the law after the election is over. If the Second Circuit isn’t pondering doing that, it is difficult to know why it didn’t deniy relief weeks ago.
The only unqualified political party in New York that has more than a single candidate for any federal or state office (not counting fusion nominations) is the Medical Freedom Party. It placed one of its own nominees on the ballot for U.S. House, and four for legislature. It also nominated a few Republican nominees. Here is its webpage.
The Independence Party, another unqualified party, also completed some legislative petitions, but they are all instances when the Independence Party nominated the Republican nominee.
Data for Progress has released this New Hampshire poll for the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races. For Governor, the poll oddly includes Kelly Halldorson, but not Karlyn Borysenko. Both are Libertarians who are on the ballot with the “Libertarian” label. The poll shows 4% for Halldorson.
For U.S. Senate, where the only Libertarian on the ballot is Jeremy Kauffman, he has 3%.
New Hampshire defines a qualified party as a group that polls 4% for either Governor or U.S. Senator.
On October 3, three of the candidates on the ballot for U.S. Senate in Idaho debated each other. See this story. They were the Republican and Democratic nominees, and the independent candidate, Scott Cleveland. The Libertarian Party and Constitution Party nominees were not invited into the debate.
The Democratic Party has fewer candidates on the November ballot this year for state legislature than any election since 2004. Nebraska is excluded from this calculation, because it has non-partisan elections for State Legislature. For California and Washington, the top-two states, districts with two Democrats on the November ballot are counted just once.
Ballot Access News has been keeping track of the number of legislative candidates from each party starting in 2002. More detail will be in the November 1 print edition of B.A.N.
