According to this story, the Working Families Party might nominate Yuh-line Niou for U.S. House, 10th district, New York. The district includes southern Manhattan and part of Brooklyn. She narrowly lost the Democratic primary earlier this month. She is a sitting state Assemblywoman.
On August 31, a California trial state court in Alameda County ruled that an Oakland initiative should remain on the ballot. It asks voters if they wish to allow permanent resident alien adult voters vote in Oakland School Board elections. Some voters had sued to remove it from the ballot. But the judge said it is customary to consider the constitutionality of ballot measures only after the election is over.
The Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE) has filed this amicus curiae brief in Cowen v Raffensperger, 22-101. This is the Georgia case on ballot access for minor party and independent candidates for U.S. House.
Massachusetts election officials have validated the statewide petitions of the Libertarian and Green Parties. In addition, the Libertarian petition for one U.S. House candidate also has enough valid signatures.
On August 29, in an administrative proceding, Terpsichore Maras was removed from the Ohio ballot as an independent candidate for Secretary of State. See this story. She had been the only statewide independent or minor party candidate on the Ohio November ballot this year.
BAN had previously believed that California and Kentucky were the only states (that have statewide races in 2022) who would have a Republican-Democratic monopoly on the ballot for all statewide races. But now it seems that Ohio will also be one of those states. Thanks to Kevin Hayes for the link.
