Brazil held an election on October 2. See the wikipedia article here. For president, eleven candidates were on the ballot. No one got a majority, so a runoff will be held October 30.
For the Chamber of Deputies, which has 513 members, twenty-three parties won at least one seat.
For the Senate, which has 108 members, fifteen parties won at least one seat.
The Idaho Constitution Party has been continuously on the ballot starting in 1996, although in its first few years on the ballot, its name was the U.S. Taxpayers Party. In 2020 it has more nominees for federal and state office than it has ever had before. It has nominees for U.S. Senate, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Controller, six State Senate seats, and four State House seats.
It has more nominees on the ballot than any Idaho minor party since 2002, when the Idaho Libertarian Party had 36 nominees for federal and state office.
On October 4, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Merrill v Milligan, 21-1086. It lasted two hours. There will be many news stories about the oral argument. Here is the Reuters story, which isn’t very detailed. The issue is whether the 3-judge U.S. District Court was correct early this year when he invalidated the Alabama U.S. House districting plan under the federal Voting Rights Act. The 3-judge court had required Alabama to draw two districts with Black majorities, instead of just one. Then the U.S. Supreme Court had stayed that decision, in a 5-4 vote.
UPDATE: see this analysis by Professor Rick Hasen, posted at electionlawblog.
FURTHER UPDATE: here is the transcript.
This news story says Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson is pondering whether to appeal the decision of a U.S. District Court that struck down the Arkansas ballot access requirement for new and minor parties.
Maryland Matters, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news source for Maryland politics and government, has this story about the Libertarian Party nominee for Governor, David Lashar.
