On November 16, Joelle Riddle filed her federal lawsuit against the Colorado law that makes it impossible for her to run for re-election as an independent candidate in 2010. She is an incumbent La Plata County Commissioner, a partisan office. She was elected in 2006 as a Democrat, but earlier this year she switched her affiliation to “independent.” Colorado law says no one may be an independent who was registered into a qualified party during the entire year before filing as an independent. Here is her complaint. The case is called Riddle v Daley, no. 09-cv-2680.