ballot order

National Democratic Party organizations are asking a federal appeals court to reconsider a decision that rejected a challenge to a decades-old Florida law about how candidates are listed on election ballots.

A federal appeals court this week tossed out a ruling that said a decades-old Florida law about how candidates should be listed on the ballot is unconstitutional. The law gives top billing to candidates who have the same political party as the governor.

Ahead of the 2020 election, a federal judge in Florida ruled against a 70-year-old law placing the party controlling the governor’s mansion first on…