The Guardian, one of the best-read and most influential newspapers in the United Kingdom, here analyzes whether people who voted for Jo Jorgensen would have voted for President Trump if the Libertarian Party had not run its own candidate. The conclusion is that it is impossible to know.
This story contains a list of each state, showing the legal deadline for election officials to certify the election results. Scroll down to the bottom. The list was compiled by the National Association of State Election Directors.
The state with the latest legal deadline is Arkansas, with a deadline in mid-December. Just because a state has a legal deadline does not always mean that the work really gets completed by the legal deadline, but generally it does.
Here is a link to the U.S. Senate election returns for Minnesota. The Legal Marijuana Now Party polled 5.91%. Under the law, that means it is not only ballot-qualified in 2022, but in 2024 as well. In Minnesota, when a party polls 5%, it retains its qualified status for the next two elections.
The Grassroots – Legalize Cannabis Party also ran for U.S. Senate in Minnesota this year, and it polled 1.78%. But because it got over 5% for a statewide race in 2018, it will still be on the 2022 ballot. Thanks to Dave Cummings for this news.
On November 3, the voters of five cities approved ballot measures that will institute ranked choice voting, for elections for city officers. The cities are Eureka, California; Albany, California; Boulder, Colorado; Bloomington, Minnesota; and Minnetonka, Minnesota.
In the 2020 presidential election, the average state had six presidential candidates on the ballot. The median state had five candidates. The average is somewhat distorted because Colorado and Vermont each had 21 candidates, so the median is probably a more meaningful figure.
Twelve states only had three candidates on the ballot: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia.
If you intend to ask any state legislator to introduce a bill to ease ballot access, and you are in one of the twelve states that only had three, that is ammunition for the idea that your state is too difficult.
In the early Democratic presidential primaries, every state had at least 12 Democrats on the presidential primary ballot, and that didn’t cause any “voter confusion” problems. The same is true of early Republican presidential primaries in 2016.
Ballot access laws that keep worthy candidates off the ballot don’t only injure those candidates. They injure the voters who would like to vote for such candidates. Democratic Party legislators like to think that the Democratic Party is a champion of voting rights, so if you are communicating with a Democratic state legislator, make this point.
