On November 2, voters in three cities were asked if they want to use ranked choice voting for future elections for local office. In all three cities, the measure passed. The three cities are Broomfield, Colorado; Westbrook, Maine; and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
On November 3, the New York State Board of Elections released new voter registration data. See this link.
The Board’s website did not reveal the number of registrants in any of the unqualified parties, but the Board does keep this data and this post will be updated when that data has been obtained. For the time being, the number of voters registered in unqualified parties is in the “Other” column on the Board’s website.
Some New York newspapers are erroneously saying that the registrants in the unqualified parties have been converted to independent voters. This is not true.
The new percentages are: Democratic 50.12%; Republican 21.99%; Conservative 1.26%; Working Families .37%; unqualified parties 3.56%; independents 22.71%. In New York, election officials use the term “blanks” to mean independent voters.
In February 2021, when the last tally was released, the percentages were: Democratic 50.05%; Republican 22.11%; Conservative 1.25%; Working Families .36%; unqualified parties 3.73%; independent 22.50%.
These percentages are for active voters. Ballot Access News has been reporting the number of registered voters in each party since 1992, and has always reported active voter data.
On November 2, Shonta Browdy, the Working Families Party incumbent on the Hartford, Connecticut, Board of Education, was re-elected. She was not simultaneously a Democratic Party nominee. See this story.
Earlier this year, Nebraska changed its law so that a party petition no longer has infinite time to circulate. A petition to recognize a new party can now only start the day after a general election. Therefore, it must be completed within the period between elections. That is still a considerable amount of time. The bill, LB 285, was signed into law by Governor Pete Ricketts on May 26, 2021. The bill had many other election law provisions as well.
New York city elected a mayor on November 2, 2021. This news story has the percentage (but not the vote total) for each candidate. It shows that the Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee, Catherine Rojas, placed third, with 2.48%. Although the results aren’t final, if that holds up, her percentage is the highest share of the vote for New York city Mayor, for a party with “Socialist” or “Socialism” in its name, since 1933.
