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.
The Maine Secretary of State has posted new registration data. See it here. The percentages are: Democratic 35.52%, Republican 28.16%, Green Independent 4.06%, Libertarian .06%, other and independent 32.20%.
In November 2020, the percentages were: Democratic 35.68%, Republican 28.36%, Green Independent 4.01%, other and independent 31.94%. At the time the state did not allow anyone to register Libertarian.
On June 20, the New York Libertarian and Green Parties asked the Second Circuit for an injunction, putting their candidates on the November 2022 ballot. The case was already open but had been moving slowly. It is Libertarian Party of New York v New York, 21-1464. Here is the here.
On June 21, the State Board of Elections filed a brief in opposition. See it brief.
According to this story, if John F. Wood decides to run for U.S. Senate in Missouri as an independent candidates, his backers have already raised $5,000,000 for the campaign. However, Wood has not yet said if he will run. The petition deadline is August 1 and the requirement is 10,000 signatures, to be collected from anywhere in the state. There is no distribution requirement; it was repealed in 1993 after Libertarian Party lobbying.
