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.

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.

In the 2020 election there were 36 individuals who were on a ballot as a presidential candidate. Among those, the candidate who placed last is Zac Scalf, who was only on in Vermont and who received twenty-nine votes. Here is a Reason Magazine interview with Scalf.

Scalf claims to be surprised that anyone voted for him. The interviewer did not point out that he could not have got on the ballot without submitting the names of three Vermont residents who were his candidates for presidential elector. It is likely that the three individuals voted for Scalf, and probably some of the friends of the three elector candidates heard about Scalf and also voted for him.