On December 16, the California Secretary of State completed the election returns for last month’s election. Although that office had made semi-official returns in the preceding weeks, the semi-official returns had no write-in totals for President. Therefore, the biggest news from the December 16 document are the presidential write-ins. Bernie Sanders received 79,341; Evan McMullin received 39,596. See the presidential returns at this link.
Thanks to several people for the link.
I guess Castle did not file as a write in candidate?
Is there any way to challenge the legality of the vote since no one was able to vote for Trump’s electors since they had 108 people for 55 spots?
Jill’s total seems to have gone up slightly; the CA official total now has her at 2% and I’m fairly sure the semi-official total had her at less than that. Could be wrong though.
CA = WY —- only for ANTI-Democracy math MORONS.
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Brandon, someone would have to sue and it seems no one will. If Hillary had a claim to enough electoral votes to win then the AIP and the CA GOP would have had a lot more motivation to do so. The AIP did bring up the fact that the GOP submitted their electors late in a list of complaints about how the CA Secretary of State carried out his duties, but not in a lawsuit to prevent certification of the vote.
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results/general-election-november-8-2016/statement-vote/
Website for spreadsheet data parts of the SOV.
Lots of NON-votes in all office elections in which there was NOT 1 D and 1 R.
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Mike Maturen of the American Solidarity Party got 1316 votes; an unprecedented achievement for such a low-budget, late-starting campaign. They beat the totals for Rocky Anderson and Virgil Goode from California in 2012.
@Chris Powell: How could the Republicans and AIP challenge a Hillary victory in California? As far as I understand, the California Democrats put together a proper slate of electors. It was the California Republicans and AIP who screwed up by nominating too many electors.
Now, if Trump had gotten the most votes in California but failed to receive the electoral vote because the Republicans and AIP submitted too many electors, that would more likely be grounds for a legal challenge by Republican and/or AIP voters. Or, for that matter, if Trump had gotten the most votes in the state and did receive the electoral vote despite having too many electors submitted on his behalf, there probably would have been a legal challenge against that from the Democrats.
Honestly 2 separate parties are to blame, the California GOP and CA’s SOS. The republicans didn’t coordinate with the AIP and submitted their list late, but the SOS made the much more egregious error in certifying both lists. It should have been dealt with right then and there by only certifying 1 of them.
CA TOTAL VOTES = SUM OF THE VOTES IN THE X SMALLEST STATES.
SOLVE FOR X.
I.E. THE USA IS AN ANTI-DEMOCRACY REGIME — SINCE DAY 1 IN 1789,
IT SHOWS — GENOCIDE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES, SLAVERY, OPPRESSION OF MINORITIES. ZILLIONS OF SPECIAL INTEREST GANG LAWS, NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY, ETC. ETC. ETC.
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