The three-member Board of Elections of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, will have two Democrats and one independent, starting new year. See this story. The independent, Alex Rose, beat a Republican at the November 4, 2025 election. Rose’s ballot label was “Labor.”
On November 27, the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, vetoed a bill to let all voters vote by postal mail. See this story. Current law only allows elderly, hospitalized or disabled voters to vote by mail.
On November 28, the Arizona Clean Elections Commission voted to sue the Arizona Secretary of State to prevent him from letting the No Labels Party change its name to the Arizona Independent Party. The Commission is a state agency, formed in 1998 to regulate the state’s public funding of campaigns program. The vote was 4-1.
The Commission thinks that letting any party have the word “independent” in its name will cause voter confusion. At the meeting, the Commission was told that Arizona let the American Independent Party on the ballot in 1968 and 1972. The attorney for the Commission said he didn’t think that is true, but a simple look at the 1968 and 1972 election returns show that it is true.
The Commission has two Republicans, two independents, and one Democrat. The Commissioner who voted against the motion to sue is the Democratic member, Steve Titla.
On June 24, the Moderate Party of New Jersey asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to hear its case over fusion. The Court still hasn’t said whether it will hear the case. It had been thought that perhaps the Court was waiting for the November 4 election to be over before it acted, but there is still no action. In re Tom Malinkowski Petition for Nomination for General Election.
As noted earlier, one California gubernatorial candidate is suing another candidate because the other candidate has been campaigning while wearing his sheriff’s uniform. Cloobeck v Bianco, Riverside County Superior Court, cvri2505068.
But on November 24, the plaintiff, Stephen Cloobeck, withdrew from the gubernatorial race. That probably means that his lawsuit will be dismissed on standing grounds. Cloobeck will not be able to show that he is being harmed by Chad Bianco’s tendency to wear his uniform while campaigning.
