On October 23, the California Secretary of State posted the list of presidential write-in candidates:
1. Brian Carroll of the American Solidarity Party
2. Mark Charles, independent
3. Joseph Kishore, Socialist Equality Party
4. Brock Pierce, independent
5. Jesse Ventura, independent
Presidential candidates do not need to give permission for write-in filing. The write-in filing is done by groups of candidates for presidential elector. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg for the list.
Ballot Access News
October 2020 – Volume 36, Number 5
| This issue was printed on white paper. |
Table of Contents
Two New York Republican legislators have introduced a bill to provide that each U.S. House district should elect its own presidential elector. See this story.
On October 20, GBAO Strategies released a poll of the New Mexico U.S. Senate race. The results: Democratic 52%; Republican 41%; Libertarian 5%; undecided or no response 2%. See here. Thanks to Rick Lass for the link.
In March 2020, there were more registered independents in the nation than there were registered Republicans. However, since then, the Republican share of the registration (in the states that have partisan registration) has increased from 28.87% to 29.51%, whereas independent registration has declined from 29.09% to 28.38%.
