On December 8, Pennsylvania’s Governor and Department of State filed this response in Kelly v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 20A98. This is the case in which a Republican Pennsylvania Congressmember asks the U.S. Supreme Court to stop certification of Pennsylvania’s election returns.
The Working Families Party polled 4.49% of the New York presidential vote this year. That is more than double the party’s previous best showing for president in New York, which had been 2.09%, which it received in both 2004 and 2008. Its 2016 percentage for president in New York had only been 1.83%.
The party also did well for U.S. House in New York, although the results for U.S. House aren’t final because the state still hasn’t certified the vote for any candidate in the 22nd district, because it is too close to call and there are unresolved counting issues. But setting aside the 22nd, the percentage for the Working Families Party nominees for U.S. House (almost all of whom were also Democratic nominees) was 5.67% in the districts in which the party had nominees. It had nominees in 20 of the 27 districts. That was the party’s second best showing for U.S. House in its history; the only better year for U.S. House had been 2014, when it was 6.12% in the districts in which it had nominees.
on Monday, December 7, early in the morning, U.S. District Court Judge Linda Parker issued a 36-page opinion in King v Whitmer, e.d., 1:20cv-13134. It rejects the request of three Michigan Republican presidential elector candidates to set aside the election returns. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
On December 3, the New York Board of Elections released the official vote totals. See them here.
The only declared write-in presidential candidates who polled as much as 100 write-ins were Kanye West 1,897; Brian Carroll 805; Gloria La Riva 376; and Jade Simmons 155.
Virginia elects its statewide state officers in years following presidential elections. Virginia permits all qualified parties to decide for themselves whether to nominate by primary or convention. For the 2021 statewide offices, the Republican Party will nominate by convention. The decision was made on Saturday, December 5.
The Republicans used a primary for those offices in 2017, but a convention for those offices in 2013. Republicans haven’t won a gubernatorial general election in Virginia since 2009, when Robert McDonnell was elected.
