Michael Peroutka, the Constitution Party’s 2004 presidential nominee, is seeking the Republican nomination for Attorney General of Maryland. The primary is July 19. He is in a two-person race with Jim Shalleck. See this story. Thanks to PoliticalWire for this news.
On June 16, U.S. District Court Judge Jason K. Pulliam, a Trump appointee, struck down a Texas law that won’t permit voters to fax their voter registration applications to the elections office. Vote.org v Callanen, w.d., 5:21cv-649. The Texas law says that if a voter submits an application by fax, the same voter must within four days send a paper copy; otherwise the fax application is rejected. Here is the decision.
The state has filed an appeal, case 22-50536 in the Fifth Circuit.
On July 18, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the North Carolina Democratic Party asked to intervene in the Green Party North Carolina ballot access case. Five attorneys from the Marc Elias law firm submitted the brief. It says that the county election boards did not do a careful job of checking the Green Party’s petition, and that the petition perhaps doesn’t have enough valid signatures. It also says that if the Green Party gets on the ballot, the Democratic Party will be injured because it will need to expend more resources to win the U.S. Senate election (see pages 19-21).
Here is the Democratic Party brief.
The attorney for the Green Party proposed that the state file its brief within a week, but the attorney for the state says the state needs more time than that. The judge directed the two sides to negotiate a briefing schedule by July 19. If they cannot agree on the schedule, the judge will set a schedule.
On July 15, a committee of the Republican National Convention recommended that the party hold its 2024 presidential convention in Milwaukee. The full national committee must still approve the decision, but it is unlikely to reject it.
The Republican Party in recent years has been far earlier to choose its national convention site than the Democratic Party has been. For the 2020 national conventions, the Republicans chose Charlotte on July 20, 2018; but the Democrats didn’t choose Milwaukee until March 11, 2019.
Hawaii requires all qualified parties to nominate by primary. The primary is August 13 and there are six qualified parties: Democratic, Republican, Aloha Aina, Libertarian, Green, and Constitution.
This year, the Libertarian Party and the Aloha Aina Party both have contested primaries for Governor. The Aloha Aina gubernatorial candidates are Selina Blackwell and Keline Kahau. The Libertarians are Daniel J. Peddie and T. K. Hinshaw.
In Hawaii, independent candidates must run in the primary. They advance to the general election if they outpoll a minor party nominee for the same office. There are independents running for U.S. Senate, both U.S. House seats, Governor, and many legislative seats.
The Green Party has a candidate for U.S. Senate and one for Lieutenant Governor, but there is no gubernatorial Green, so the Lieutenant Governor candidate won’t be able to run in November. Governor and Lieutenant Governor run separately in primaries, but as a team in the general election.
The Libertarian Party has a candidate for U.S. Senate and one U.S. House candidate.
Aloha Aina has a candidate for U.S. Senate.
For minor parties in legislative races, there are eight Aloha Aina candidates, six Libertarians, and four Greens.
