Congressmember Mo Brooks of Alabama is leading an effort in Congress to reject the electoral votes of five states. He represents the Fifth District, which is the northernmost part of Alabama. In November 2020 he had no opponents on the ballot. The Democratic Party chose to run no one against him, and Alabama’s severe ballot access laws prevented any minor party or independent from running against him.
On December 9, former U.S. Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and Bob Kerry of Nebraska, and former New Jersey Governor Christy Todd Whitman, and other former elected officials filed this amicus curiae brief in Level the Playing Field v FEC, the presidential debates case.
The FEC has obtained permission to delay filing its response. The FEC response is now due January 13, 2021.
On December 11, a group of learned scholars, attorneys, and business leaders who are well-informed about the circulation of ideas filed this amicus curiae brief in Level the Playing Field v Federal Election Commission, 20-649. This is the case involving general election presidential debates.
On December 14, Maine state representative John Andrews changed his voter registration from Republican to Libertarian. He represents part of Oxford County and lives in the county seat, Paris. He was first elected to the legislature in 2018, and was re-elected last month.
The Maine Libertarian Party is not now ballot-qualified, but Maine residents are permitted to register into the Libertarian Party because it has filed paperwork showing that it is intending to qualify. Also the party has a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to regain its qualified status, which for a newly-qualifying party, requires 5,000 registered members by January 2022.
The Connecticut Working Families Party always runs nominees for Congress and state legislature in at least half the districts. In 2020, for an unexplained reason, the percentage of the vote for the WFP, in the districts in which it had nominees, was the lowest in history.
Its 2020 State Senate nominees, in the districts in which they ran, polled 2.44% of the vote. In previous years, the State Senate percentages had been: 2002 3.02%; 2004 2.94%; 2006 4.24%; 2008 5.88%; 2010 3.83%; 2012 3.29%; 2014 5.67%; 2016 3.69%; 2018 2.58%.
Its 2020 State Representative nominees, in the districts in which they ran, polled 2.95%. Previous years were: 2002 3.81%; 2004 3.46%; 2006 4.97%; 2008 6.29%; 2010 3.58%; 2012 4.31%; 2014 4.58%; 2016 5.00%; 2018 3.05%..
For U.S. House, the 2020 percentage was 2.70%. That was the lowest percentage ever, except that it had been lower in 2004 and 2006. 2004 was 1.14%; 2006 2.66%; 2008 5.24%; 2010 2.90%; 2012 4.38%; 2014 3.96%; 2016 5.81%; 2018 3.69%.
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