According to this National Public Radio story, the Missouri initiative for a top-four system failed to obtain enough signatures. Backers say they will try again. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.
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UPDATE made on Tuesday, July 19: it turns out the original post below was not completely accurate. The challenge to the Libertarian Party nominee for Secretary of State is a challenge to the statewide petition. However, even if the petition is shown to lack enough valid signatures, if that were the case, the only effect would be on the Libertarian nominee for Secretary of State. The other candidates are safely on the ballot.
July 18 was the deadline for challenges to Illinois minor party and independent petitions. No challenges were filed to the statewide petition of the Libertarian Party, nor to the independent gubernatorial petition filed by Tommy Belg. Those had been the only statewide petitions that were submitted this year.
No challenges were filed to any independent or minor party candidate petitions for U.S. House. There are three such candidates: independents Babette Peyton in the First District and Jerico Cruz in the Fifth District; also the Working Class Party petition in the 4th district, Edward Hershey.
A challenge was filed to the Libertarian nominee for Secretary of State, Jesse White, but that challenge does not involve petition validity. Instead it challenges White because he has the same name as the outgoing Secretary of State. That challenge is exceedingly unlikely to succeed, because there is no basis in Illinois law to keep someone off the ballot on the grounds that he or she has an identical name to someone else.
This newspaper story from Georgia says that the Libertarian candidate for U.S. House failed to get enough signatures to get on the ballot. It even quotes someone in the Secretary of State’s office who says that “it had never been done”, which is an honest thing for the Secretary of State to admit.
The Carolina Journal, which is non-partisan and highly respected, has this article about reasons to believe that North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s office worked in tandem with the National Democratic Party Senate Campaign Committee to keep the Green Party off the ballot.
Thanks to Chris Cole for the link.
The Working Class Party, which is on the ballot in Maryland and Michigan, has petitioned this year for a U.S. House seat in Illinois. It is running Edward Hershey in the 4th district, in Chicago.
In years ending in “2”, such as 2022, Illinois requires exactly 5,000 signatures for minor party and independent candidates for U.S. House. In other years, Illinois requires a petition signed by 5% of the last vote cast, which is generally between 15,000 and 20,000 signatures.