on July 27, the Kansas Supreme Court refused to interfere, for now, with a trial court decision that keeps the 3-day grace period for postal ballots to arrive. See this story. The legislature earlier this year passed a bill requiring ballots to arrive no later than election day, but a state trial court had enjoined it. See this story.
On July 29, an Iowa state trial court removed Marco Battaglia from the ballot. He is the Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. House, district 3. The judge left Rick Stewart on the ballot in the 2nd district. See this story.
on July 31, a New Jersey state appeals court removed Lana Leguia from the ballot. She is the Libertarian nominee for U.S. House, 7th district. She only has enough valid signatures of the ones collected by out-of-state circulators are included. Although the New Jersey law banning out-of-state circulators was struck down in 2021, that case concerned petitions for primary candidates, not general election candidates. The Secretary of State had put Leguia on the ballot but the State Court of Appeals ruling says the Secretary of State didn’t have the authority to set aside the circulator ban for general election petitions. See this story. The decision is stayed so that Leguia has time to appeal to the State Supreme Court.
Here is the list of candidates running in the Washington state August 4 top-two primary. There are no statewide offices up in Washington this year, so the list starts with the most important office, U.S. House.
The most interesting race is in the 9th district, where five candidates are on the ballot: two Democrats (including the incumbent, Adam Smith), one Republican, one Socialist Workers Party candidate, and Kshama Sawant, whose ballot label is “independent”. Sawant campaigns as a socialist, and she could have chosen that label, but she didn’t. She is a former member of the Seattle city council, and she has a vigorous campaign. Watch this interview with her. She is interviewed by Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report.
Here is the 2026 list of candidates for West Virginia federal and state offices. The only minor party nominees for Congress are both from the Constitution Party: S. Marshall Wilson for U.S. Senate, and Belinda Fox-Spencer for US House, First District. The Libertarian and Mountain Parties are also ballot-qualified, but they didn’t run anyone this year for congress.
There are no statewide state offices up this year in West Virginia.
