The July 1 action of the three Democratic members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, removing the Green Party from the ballot even though the County Election Boards had certified that the petition had enough signatures, is getting more publicity.
Here is an article in LA Progressive.
Here is another article, from Common Dreams.
Here is a letter to the editor of the Rhino Times of Greensboro, North Carolina.
On July 5, the United States government sued Arizona over the state’s new law requiring that voters registering to vote furnish proof of citizenship. USA v State of Arizona, 2:22cv-1124. Here is the Complaint. If the proof is not attached, the voter cannot vote in presidential elections.
Arizona had a law like this in the past, and it was struck down. But the 2022 session of the legislature re-enacted almost the same law.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee.
The District of Columbia has four ballot-qualified parties: Democratic, Republican, Green, and Libertarian. The name of the Green Party in D.C. is Statehood Green.
At the 2022 primaries, no one filed to appear on the primary ballot of the Green and Libertarian Parties, but both parties nominated candidates in their own primaries via write-in votes. Write-in candidates in primaries have their write-ins counted if they file a declaration of write-in candidacy. There is no minimum number of write-ins needed.
For the districtwide offices, Greens nominated Natale Stracuzzi for Delegate to the U.S. House, Darryl! L. C. Moch for Chair of the City Council, David Schwartzman for City-Council-At-Large, and Joyce Robinson-Paul for “shadow” seat in the U.S. House.
Libertarians nominated Dennis Sobin for Mayor and Bruce Majors for Delegate to the U.S. House.
The Republican Party nominated a full slate of districtwide candidates (except for Attorney General), so it won’t be easy for the Libertarian Party to poll the needed 7,500 votes in the general election for one of the races. Turnout in D.C. general elections in midterm years is very low, because generally people know that Democrats always win, so it takes a higher percentage of the vote to reach 7,500 votes. The only time the Libertarian Party ever met the 7,500-vote threshold in a midterm year was 2018, when Libertarians exceeded it for Mayor, Chair of the City Council, and Attorney General, but in none of those three races was there a Republican running. The Greens in D.C. always meet the vote test, in presidential and midterm years alike.
The Birmingham News has this lengthy story about the legislature’s plans to convert Alabama from an open primary state to a closed primary state.
On June 30, the New York Libertarian Party statewide candidates filed a lawsuit in state court, contesting the State Board of Elections decision that the petition is invalid. There are actually two cases, Sharpe v New York State Board of Elections, and Hollister v New York State Board of Elections, but they raise identical points. Here is the filing in the Sharpe case, Albany County Supreme Court 04989-22.
The case will be heard on Monday, July 25, at 9:30 a.m.
