The presidential total, as calculated by the Associated Press, now shows that Joe Biden has 51.4%. Only four Democratic nominees for president have polled that high since the Civil War. The other three Democratic nominees who polled that high since the Civil War are Franklin D. Roosevelt all four times, Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and Barack Obama in 2008.
The national totals still aren’t final. Some votes remain to be counted in many states. Here is a link to the AP tally.
Dan Schnur here writes that a multi-party system works better than the two-party system used in the U.S. He is a political scientist and was formerly a high ranking official to California Governor Pete Wilson. Thanks to Independent Voter News for the link.
On November 25, six Georgia Republican presidential elector candidates filed a federal lawsuit, arguing that the Georgia election returns should be set aside. They assert that the Dominion vote-counting equipment fraudulently increased Joe Biden’s vote count by 96,000 votes. Pearson v Kemp, n.d., 1:20cv-4809.
Georgia has sixteen electoral votes, which means that ten of the Republican presidential elector candidates did not join this lawsuit.
On December 2, the Republican candidates for presidential elector from Arizona filed a federal lawsuit, alleging that the Dominion vote-counting machines switched 62,000 Trump votes to Biden votes. Bowyer v Ducey, 2:20cv-2321. Here is the Complaint.
The New York Independence Party very recently became the New York state affiliate of the Alliance Party.
If it weren’t for the New York law that passed in April 2020, making it far more difficult for parties to remain ballot-qualified, the Independence Party would now be ballot-qualified, and therefore the Alliance Party would now be ballot-qualified in New York. But under the new law, the Independence Party is not ballot-qualified. It is possible that the new New York law will be declared unconstitutional in federal court in the coming months.
The Alliance Party is now ballot-qualified in Connecticut, Florida, Mississippi, and South Carolina, and it will be ballot-qualified in Delaware (under the name American Delta) if it increases its registration by about 100 more members.
