The Georgia ballot access lawsuit, Coffield v Kemp, now has a case number in the U.S. Supreme Court, 10-596. The case challenges Georgia procedures for minor party or independent candidates for U.S. House to get on the ballot. Those procedures … Continue reading
On November 5, a New York state vote-tabulating error was discovered, which suggests that U.S. House member Timothy Bishop, a Democrat in the First District, may have lost his seat to the Republican nominee. See this story. Election night returns … Continue reading
At the November 2010 election, no Republican nominee for District of Columbia partisan office polled as many as 7,500 votes, except for the Republican nominee for “Shadow U.S. Representative.” The District of Columbia elects “shadow” U.S. Senators and a U.S. … Continue reading
In 2010, two very old political parties that had never appeared on the ballot in a partisan election finally decided to enter a partisan race. The Labor Party placed Brett Bursey on the South Carolina ballot for state representative, 69th … Continue reading
On November 5, a Colorado state district court ruled that votes for write-in candidates in which the voter forgot, or didn’t know, to also fill in the oval next to the write-in line should be counted. The 4-page decision is … Continue reading
