Texas elects state judges on a partisan basis. For some reason, no one qualified for the November 2022 ballot for District Judge, 301st district, in Dallas County, Texas. There are three declared write-in candidates: the incumbent, Judge Mary Brown; Earl Jackson; and Michelle McKinney. Thanks to Jim Riley for this news.
On September 2, Rick Becker, a North Dakota Republican state legislator, submitted a petition to be on the November ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate. He needed 1,000 signatures and submitted approximately 2,000. See this story.
On September 1, one of the Connecticut candidates for the Independent Party’s gubernatorial nomination sued the Secretary of State of Connecticut, and the Independent Party, over the disputed results of the recent gubernatorial convention process. See this story.
The case is Stefanowski v Kohler, in Hartford state trial court.
The Federalist has this article by Victoria Marshall, detailing Democratic Party efforts from 2004 through the present to prevent voters from voting for parties or candidates to the left of the Democratic Party.
The story says nothing about the period 1936-1980. Democrats tried to keep the 1936 Union Party off the ballot in Pennsylvania; to keep the Progressive Party off the ballot in 1948 in Illinois; to keep independent presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy off the ballot in New York in 1976; and to keep independent presidential candidate John Anderson off the ballot in 1980 in Massachusetts and North Carolina.
By contrast, Republicans did not take action to keep minor party or independent presidential candidates off the ballot in any state until 2008, when the Republican Party tried to keep Libertarian nominee Bob Barr off the Pennsylvania ballot.
The Missouri Secretary of State has determined that the Green Party petition for qualified status does not have enough valid signatures.
