According to this story, a lawsuit to force the Alaska Division of Elections to put four candidates on the August special general election, instead of three, has already been filed. The article indicates that the judge stated orally that he believes the Division of Elections is correct, and that only three candidates will appear.
The NAACP has filed this brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Ardoin v Robinson.
Another set of plaintiffs has filed this brief in the same case.
Both briefs make the case that there is no need for the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the orders of the lower federal courts that Louisiana must draw two black-majority U.S. House districts. Louisiana has no congressional primaries. There is no voting in Louisiana for congress until November.
The North Carolina Green Party has received information that an organized Democratic Party group has the list of persons who signed the 2022 Green Party ballot access petition, and Democrats are phoning the signers and asking them to retract their signatures. It is too late for the Green Party to be adding any new signers. The counties have already checked the signatures and the Green Party has enough valid signatures. There is no provision in the North Carolina election code for signers to retract their signatures from a party petition.
On June 21, Alaska candidate Tara Sweeney said she will not sue to reverse a decision of the Alaska Division of Elections that only three candidates will appear on the special general election for U.S. House. See this story. She would be the only likely plaintiff if such a lawsuit did materialize. She placed fifth, and because Al Gross withdrew, if anyone were to take his place on the ballot, it would have been her. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.
On June 22, a North Carolina Administrative Law Judge ruled that Al Pisano, Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate in 2020, should not be required to pay a fine of $2,750 for having been late with his campaign finance reports. Here is the Opinion. It says that the North Carolina Board of Elections failed to follow its own procedures. The procedures say that the Board should have notified Pisano immediately when they didn’t receive his report. Instead they did not communicate with him until a year later, when they sent him a bill for $2,750.
The Administrative Law Judge also found that when Pisano asked for a waiver, the Board did not even address most of his points, and the letter denying waiver was unsigned and didn’t even appear to address the type of fine that had been levied. Thanks to Kevin Hayes for the link.
