The Second Circuit heard Libertarian Party of New York v New York State Board of Elections, 22-44, on September 6. As of Saturday, September 24, it hasn’t issued any ruling. This is the ballot access case, against the 2020 election law changes that tripled the number of signatures for statewide office, and made the definition of a qualified party far more difficult.
On September 22, the Arkansas Supreme Court placed a statewide initiative concerning marijuana on the ballot. Election officials had acknowledged that it had enough valid signatures, but still had refused to put it on the ballot because they felt the description of the measure was misleading. The Court disagreed and said it isn’t possible for a Ballot Title for an initiative to include everything relevant.
Here is the Opinion in Armstrong v Thurston, cv-22-482. The vote was 5-2.
This SoonerPoll has results for almost all of the Oklahoma statewide offices, and for the most part includes all ballot-listed candidates. However, these results omit party labels. The Libertarian nominees that are included in the poll are Natalie Bruno for Governor, Chris Powell for Lieutenant Governor, Gregory Sadler for Treasurer, and Will Daugherty for Labor Commissioner.
The poll does not mention the Libertarians running for each of the two U.S. Senate seats. Also the poll does not include Attorney General, which is a two-way race between a Republican and a Libertarian.
In the gubernatorial election, independent candidate Ervin Yen is a Republican State Senator.
Wisconsin, like 25 other states, allows candidates who qualify for the general election ballot by petition to choose a short partisan label that appears on the ballot next to their name. This year, an independent candidate for U.S. House in the Second District, Douglas Alexander, chose the label “Term Limits on Congress.” Unfortunately, due to an error, the ballots were printed without the label. See this story.
On September 23, an Alaska state trial court kept Republican candidate David Eastman on the November ballot. He is running for re-election to the state house, district 27. His candidacy had been challenged on the basis that he is a member of Oath Keepers, and that the Alaska Constitution bars members of groups that advocate the violent overthrow of the government from running for public office. See this story.
There will be a trial in December on the merits, and if the court finds that Eastman is not eligible, the ranked choice votes for him will not be counted for him. Only three candidates filed to run for this seat, which is based on Wasilla. All three candidates are Republicans. All three are on the November ballot.
