Every day more votes are counted. The New York Times has this running tally for the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, and Green presidential nominees. As of November 13 it now shows Jo Jorgensen above 1,800,000.
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California had two statewide ballot measures on the ballot this month that relate to voter eligibility. Proposition 17 passed. It lets individuals on parole register to vote, and passed with 59%. Proposition 18 failed. It would have let individuals who will be age 18 at the time of the general election also register and vote in the preceding primary. In presidential years there is eight months between the primary and the general election, so if it had passed, in presidential years over half of all 17-year-olds would have been able to vote in primaries.
Here are the election returns. They are not complete but the margins for those two measures are so overwhelming, it is possible to predict the outcome.
The U.S. Supreme Court has assigned a case number to Level the Playing Field v Federal Election Commission: 20-649. The response of the FEC is due December 14. It is highly likely that the FEC will ask for more time to respond. This is the case over presidential general election debates.
Alaska still has many postal ballots to count, and as of the evening of November 12, the vote is virtually tied. See the results here. The postal ballots have been much more favorable to Measure Two than the other ballots.
The measure makes it likely that minor party candidates will never qualify for the November ballot for Governor, U.S. Senator, or U.S. House. But it makes it easier for members of unqualified parties to get on the ballot for the legislature, because generally in legislative races there are only two or three candidates who file in the primary. And no one will need a petition to get on the primary ballot.
The measure also institutes ranked choice voting in the general election, but not the primary. The ranked choice voting in the general election extends to the presidential race.
The Second Circuit will hear SAM Party v Kosinski, 20-3047, the week of December 14. This is the New York ballot access case filed by the SAM Party, a ballot-qualified party that will go off the ballot if it can’t win judicial relief. The new New York definition of party requires a group to run a presidential candidate and poll 2% of the vote for that candidate. But the SAM Party didn’t have a presidential candidate this year.