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.
On Saturday, December 5, the Eleventh Circuit agreed with a U.S. District Court that a lawsuit filed to overturn the Georgia election returns should be dismissed. Wood v Raffensperger, 20-14418. Here is the 20-page opinion. The case was filed by Georgia attorney L. Lin Wood, in his capacity as a voter and also as a donor to the Trump campaign. He has received attention recently for asserting that the vote-counting machines in Georgia are deliberately programmed to injure Republicans, and he has advocated that Republicans boycott the January 2021 Georgia U.S. Senate run-offs. Thanks to Howard Bashman for the link.
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.
