On Friday, December 9, a California presidential elector, Vinz Keller, filed a federal lawsuit to overturn the California law that tells presidential electors to vote in the electoral college for the nominee of their party. Keller v Brown, n.d., 5:16cv-7069. … Continue reading
The Delaware State News, the daily newspaper for Dover, has this story about presidential write-ins in Delaware this year. The story reveals the number of write-ins cast for individuals who did not file a write-in declaration of candidacy. Very likely, … Continue reading
Last month, Ray J. Writz, Constitution Party nominee for U.S. Senate from Idaho, polled 41,677 votes. This was 6.14%, and is the highest percentage of the vote for a non-major party candidate for U.S. Senate from Idaho since 1926. Writz … Continue reading
Georgia held a partisan statewide election for Public Service Commissioner last month. Only two candidates were on the ballot, a Republican and a Libertarian. The Libertarian, Eric Hoskins, polled 1,200,076 votes, 33.42%. He carried Clayton County with 69.3% of the … Continue reading
Washington, D.C., has partisan elections for city council at-large. The voters elect two, but no party is permitted to run more than one candidate. At last month’s election, the Green Party nominee, G. Lee Aikin, received 29,165 votes, whereas the … Continue reading
