On November 26, the opponents of New York’s May petition deadline for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an extension of time in which to file their cert petition. The filing is interesting because it sets forth the issue. The request asks that the cert petition be due on December 20.
Many states will have additional election returns during the week of December 2-6. In particular, there should be write-in totals for declared write-in candidates in many more states this week.
In 2023, Missouri started letting voters choose a party on the voter registration forms. The voter’s choice has no effect on how that voter is treated. Missouri continues to be an open primary state, in which any voter is free to choose any party’s primary ballot. Therefore, only 4% of voters have indicated a choice so far.
Missouri tallies registration for parties that have polled 2% of the vote at one of the two preceding elections for any statewide race. Therefore, currently there is a tally only for the Republican, Democratic and Libertarian Parties. Thanks to Jeff Coleman for this information.
The Arizona Secretary of State has tallied the write-ins for the declared presidential write-in candidates. For candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state, Claudia De la Cruz received 689, Shiva Ayyadurai received 77, and Joel Skousen received 53.
In 2020, the Party for Socialism & Liberation had received 190 write-ins for president in Arizona.
The American Solidarity Party has been putting most of its resources into presidential campaigns, for the last three presidential elections. To the extent that it runs for other offices, they are usually offices like Congress and Governor.
But in April 2025, the party is running a full slate of candidates for the Lombard, Illinois library board. The elections are non-partisan and are held April 1. Lombard is in DuPage County, a suburban county near Chicago.
