Every day Seattle counts more votes in the recall election of socialist councilmember Kshama Sawant. Here is a link to the results posted on December 15, showing her leading by 317 votes.
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The Bread and Roses Party has asked the Maryland State Board of Elections to remove it from the list of qualified parties. The party’s founder, Jerome Segal, re-registered as a Democrat and will run for Governor of Maryland in 2022. See this story.
The other qualified parties in Maryland are Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Working Class. Thanks to Bob Johnston for this news.
“The Case for Enlarging the House of Representatives” has just been published by Lee Drutman, Jonathan D. Cohen, Yuval Levin, and Norman J. Ornstein. See it here.
On December 15, the Alaskan Independence Party filed this reply Brief in the Alaska Supreme Court in Kohlhaas v State, S-18210.
The reply brief, as expected, argues that the top-four initiative passed last year violates the Alaska Constitution. But it also suggests a possible compromise. Pages two and three points out that the initiative covered three separate subjects: campaign finance disclosure, top-four, and ranked choice voting for the general election. This reply brief suggests that because these are so diverse from each other, that the court might order a re-vote on the initiative in 2022, with all three subjects separated out from each other, so the voters could vote separately on each idea.
The national Libertarian Party website has this list of Libertarians who won election on November 2, 2021.