The New York Times has this link to the New Jersey gubernatorial race, although the party labels are incorrect. The New Jersey ballots correctly label Hoffman as the Green Party nominee, Mele as the Libertarian nominee, and Kuniansky as the Socialist Workers Party nominee. But the New York Times has them all labelled “independent.” UPDATE: the newspaper has corrected its website and now shows the party labels.
According to this article, over 60% of the Buffalo voters cast a write-in vote for Mayor, which strongly suggests that Byron Brown, the main write-in candidate, has been elected.
The Virginia State Board of Elections website has unofficial election returns, which of course are changing constantly. See here.
Pennsylvania Representative Russ Diamond (R-Lebanon) will soon introduce a bill to move the 2022 primary from May to August 2. Here is the text. If the bill passed, it would have no effect on the filing deadline for minor party and independent candidates, whose petitions are due August 1.
On November 1, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Libertarian Party of Ohio v Crites, 21-226. This is the case over the composition of the Ohio Election Commission. Ohio law says the members of the Commission must be three members of the two largest parties (as measured by which two parties have the most seats in the legislature), and a member chosen by the other six who is not a member of any party. Thus a minor party member may never serve.
The Court’s action continues a 30-year unbroken refusal by the court to accept any cert petition filed by a minor party or independent candidate, unless the two major parties were also in the case on the same side as the minor party. Yet during that 30-year period the court accepted six cert petitions filed when the minor party or independent candidate had won in the court below, and the state sought Supreme Court review. They include cases on ballot access, fusion, party freedom to decide for itself to let independents vote in its primaries, debates, and exclusion of independent and minor party candidates from serving as a state court judge.
Here is a short Associated Press article on the refusal.
