Matthew Hoh, Green Party nominee for U.S. Senate from North Carolina, is featured in this 23-minute you tube hosted by Jimmy Dore. Hoh describes the attempt by the Democratic Party members of the State Board of Elections to invalidate the Green Party petition, even though the county boards of election already checked the signatures and found the petition had enough valid signatures.
The First Circuit heard oral arguments in We the People PAC v Bellows, 21-1149, on July 27, 2021. This is the case over Maine’s ban on out-of-state circulators for initiatives. There is still no decision.
On July 1, Virginia officials filed this brief in Thomas v Beals, e.d., 3:22cv-427. This is the case on whether Virginia needs to hold elections for lower house of the state legislature before November 2023. Plaintiffs argue that new elections are needed before then because the districts violate one person, one vote. They were drawn up using the 2010 census.
The Idaho Press, the state’s second oldest newspaper, has this article about the abortion planks of the state Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Constitution Parties. All four are different.
To its credit, the Syracuse Post-Standard published a story on July 2 saying that 2022 will be the first gubernatorial election in 80 years in which only two candidates will be on the general election ballot. See it here. Actually the newspaper isn’t quite accurate; 1946 was the last gubernatorial election in New York with only two candidates. There were several minor party petitions in 1946 but they were all challenged. They were from the Socialist, Socialist Labor, and Socialist Workers Party.
It is possible 2022 will have more choices on the ballot, if the pending Libertarian-Green lawsuit pending in the Second Circuit succeeds.
The New York Times has not run any stories about the unusually restricted choices facing New York voters this year.
