The Eighth Circuit will hear Onder v State of Missouri, 26-2827, on Thursday, September 17. The plaintiffs are a Republican member of congress and a Republican nominee in Missouri. They still argue that the U.S. Constitution does not allow referenda or initiatives to apply to election laws for Congress. They are still trying to persuade a court to use the 2025 district maps instead of the 2022 maps.
On September 15, Delaware held its primaries. Representative Stephanie Bolden was defeated for renomination in the Democratic primary, State House district 2, by sixty-six votes. She has been trying for the last four legislative sessions to change the date of the non-presidential primary from September to April. Unfortunately, her bills would have automatically moved the deadline to qualify a new party from August to March.
Several times, her bills passed the House, but not the Senate. She never responded to requests to modify her bills so that the impact on new parties would be ameliorated.
On September 15, the New Mexico Forward Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put its two statewide nominees on the ballot. New Mexico Forward Party v Toulouse Oliver, 26A357. Here is the filing.
This year, Tennessee is electing all members of its legislature. In the 93rd State House district, no one is on the general election ballot. No one had petitioned to run in either the Democratic nor Republican primary except the incumbent, G. A. Hardaway, a Democrat. He needed 25 valid signatures. He submitted 47, but only 24 were valid. This was discovered on March 17, and the deadline for anyone to run as an independent had already passed, on March 10.
Tennessee permits write-ins in primaries, but no one can be nominated unless his or her write-in total is 5% of the number of voters who cast a ballot. Probably Representative Hardaway could have surmounted that barrier, but on April 23 he died. No one filed as a declared write-in candidate in either major party primary, so by then it was impossible for anyone to be on the November ballot.
Fortunately, the deadline to be a declared write-in in the general election was not until September 14, and there is one Democrat who filed to be a write-in candidate, Kyler Gilkey. The 93rd district is in Memphis.
On September 15, Cygnal Poll released a poll for the U.S. Senate race in Iowa. The results: Republican 42.9%; Democratic 42.9%; Libertarian 3.6%. See it here. Scroll down to page five.
