The Fourth Circuit will hear Hogarth v Bell, 26-1328, on September 15, Tuesday, at 9:30 a.m. This is the case over North Carolina’s ban on a voter photographing her or his voted ballot. The lower court had upheld the ban.
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The Iowa Libertarian Party plans to ask the Iowa Supreme Court to restore its gubernatorial nominee to the ballot. See this story.
A U.S. District Court will hear Americans for Citizen Voting PAC v Wolfe, e.d., 2:26cv-786, on August 19, Wednesday, at 10 a.m. This is the lawsuit over the new Wisconsin law that bans out-of-state circulators, for all petitions except those relating to presidential candidates.
The Arizona Secretary of State has posted registration data for July. See it here.
The percentages are: Republican 35.39%; Democratic 28.11%; No Labels 1.07%; Libertarian .71%; Green .12%; independent and other 34.60%.
At the April 2026 tally, the percentages had been: Republican 35.54%; Democratic 28.13%; No Labels 1.03%; Libertarian .71%; Green .12%; independent and other 34.48%.
No Labels is only the second minor party in Arizona history to have enough registrations to automatically stay on the ballot. The first such party was the Libertarian Party. So it seems inevitable that No Labels will still be a qualified party in Arizona in 2028.
On July 24, the Catoosa County, Georgia, Republican Party filed its third amended Complaint in Catoosa County Republican Party v Catoosa County Board of Elections, n.d, 4:24cv-95. This is the case filed in 2024 to block certain candidates from the Republican primary ballot. The party county officers believe the candidates, who were running for county office, were not bona fide Republicans.
The county Republican Party’s earlier court filings were inadequate, and the party has been trying to re-write its Complaint to keep the case viable. The case is now two years old.
Major parties in Alabama and Tennessee have a well-established right to keep candidates out of their primaries if the parties believe the candidates are not bona fide members of the party. But there is no such tradition in Georgia, and if the praty were to win its lawsuit, that would upend elections in Georgia.