America Votes 34, by Rhodes Cook, has just been published. It has election returns for 2019 and 2020, for president, U.S. Senate, and governor, by county. It also has returns for U.S. House elections. It is part of the series that has been published, every two years, starting in 1956.

Most large and medium-size libraries have collections of America Votes.

The Federal Election Commission still hasn’t published its 2020 book of election returns, which will be called “Federal Elections 2020”. The FEC book is free but has no returns for governor, and no county-by-county returns. Both America Votes and Federal Elections 2020 have primary returns as well as general election returns.

On December 14, the Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE) submitted this amicus curiae brief in the Oregon Supreme Court, asking the court to hear Bowers v Betschart, S069065. The Lane County, Oregon “Freedom from Aerial Spraying of Herbicides Bill of Rights” initiative would have amended the county charter. Even though the initiative had enough valid signatures (over 11,000) the county election office rejected it because it felt that the measure encompasses different subjects.

The initiative consists of “the right to be free from Chemical Trespass” and “The right to clean air, water, and soil.”

Never before had any Oregon initiative, whether statewide or local, been rejected on such grounds before the actual vote had been held.

The Daily Beast has published an article showing that Republican Party consultants were behind Kanye West’s independent presidential candidacy in 2020. The article quotes Common Cause officer Paul Seamus Ryan as saying, “It’s no secret that Kanye West’s candidacy would have a spoiler effect, siphoning votes from Democrat Joe Biden.”

Actually, the election returns show that voters who voted for Kanye West would probably have voted for Donald Trump if West had not been running. West’s best state was Utah. His best county was Houston County, Tennessee, an overwhelmingly white county.

For more detail on the Kanye West vote, see this blog post from Ballot Access News from December 2020.