On July 16, a Kansas state trial court temporarily enjoined a 2025 law that eliminates the 3-day period for postal ballots to arrive in election administration offices. See this story.
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This City Journal article by Joseph Burns explores the relationship in New York between the Working Families Party and DSA.
On July 15, Cindy Burbank, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, formally withdrew her name from the November ballot. The Nebraska Democratic Party is supporting independent candidate Dan Osborn. See this story.
On July 17, a Florida state trial court kept Republican Comgressmember Cory Mills on the Florida Republican primary ballot. Mills is running for re-election. His candidacy had been challenged on the grounds that his declaration of candidacy was notarized while he and the notary were in Washington, D.C. The challenger argued that the notarization act must occur in Florida. See this story.
On July 14, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Adelman refused to let the Wisconsin legislature intervene in the lawsuit Americans for Citizen Voting PAC v Wolfe, e.d., 2:26cv-786. This is the lawsuit over Wisconsin’s new ban on out-of-state petitioners. Here is the ruling, which says that it would violate the Wisconsin Constitution to let the legislature intervene, given that the Wisconsin Elections Commission is fully capable of defending the ban.