Texas Monthly has this article about the Forward Party, by Senior Editor Michael Hardy.

The article says that Ross Perot may have caused the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, and that Jill Stein may have caused the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Exit polls from both elections rebut this idea. Furthermore, in 1992, during the period July through September, when Perot was not a candidate, the polls consistently showed that Clinton was going to defeat President George H. W. Bush. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.

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.

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.