With 90% of the vote reported, Maine Question Five has won, 52% to 48%. This is the initiative to use instant runoff voting in future elections for congress and state office elections. Here is a link to Maine election returns. … Continue reading
Miano Elementary School in Los Banos, California, held a mock election, with these results: Hillary Clinton 505; Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation 60; Gary Johnson 35; Donald Trump 24; Jill Stein 17. Also these write-ins: … Continue reading
Three New Hampshire towns with tiny populations have already voted. Dixville Notch, Hart’s Location, and Millsfield open the polls at 12:01 a.m. on election day and close them shortly afterwards. The results: Dixville Notch: 4 Clinton, 2 Trump, 1 Johnson, … Continue reading
Politico has its web page all positioned to include election returns for president from every state. See the link, which of course doesn’t yet show any vote totals. Every candidate who is on the ballot in any particular state is … Continue reading
Politico has this lengthy article about the California U.S. Senate race, and the future of the top-two system. The article quotes Abel Maldonado, one of the fathers of the system in California. He seems to now accept the idea that … Continue reading
