According to this story, the Alaska Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the ballot labels case on Friday afternoon, September 18. That detail is at the very end of the story.
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, and U.S. House member Jamie Raskin, have this op-ed in the Boston Globe, advocating that Massachusetts voters pass the initiative to use ranked choice voting. Raskin is a Maryland Congressman. Maryland doesn’t have the statewide initiative process, but Massachusetts does.
No one knows how many votes will be cast for president in any state in November 2020. But if one uses the November 2016 vote as a substitute, one can calculate that 72.8% of the voters will use a ballot that has Howie Hawkins’ name. Without the three Democratic Party challenges to him in Montana, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, his percentage would have been 79.8%.
The 2020 percentage for him is better than it was for the Green presidential nominee in 1996, 2004, and 2008.
On September 18, the results of an NPR/PBS/Marist presidential poll were released. This is one of the national polls recognized by the Presidential Debates Commission, and is the first such poll to ask about four candidates. See it here. Scroll down to page 74.
The results: Joe Biden 49%; Donald Trump 41%; Jo Jorgensen 5%; Howie Hawkins 2%; other 1%; undecided 2%. Thanks to Dalton for the link.
On September 10, Joe Rae Perkins, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Oregon, filed a lawsuit in state court to remove almost all the Libertarian Party nominees from the ballot, including Jo Jorgensen. However, on September 15, a Marion County Circuit Judge declined to issue an injunction. Perkins v Clarno, Circuit Court, Marion County, 20CV-31103.
Perkins argues that the Libertarian Party of Oregon is operating under its 2011 bylaws, and she argues those bylaws are not in force. She wants the 2009 bylaws recognized.
This year, the Oregon Libertarian Party held a private primary at its own expense, postally mailing all 19,000 registered Libertarians a ballot, and using the results to determine the identity of the party’s nominees for Congress, partisan state office, and partisan local office. See this story.