On November 4, Andrew Cuomo was decisively defeated for Mayor of New York City. There are many reasons for his loss. One of them, which has not been acknowledged in general news media, was that he was responsible for removing the Green, Libertarian, SAM, and Independence Parties from the ballot in 2020.

In November 2024, therefore, voters who wanted to vote for the presidential nominees of the Green and Libertarian Parties were forced to cast a write-in vote. Within New York City, 26,443 voters cast a write-in for Jill Stein, and 1,369 cast one for Chase Oliver. Those voters were injured by Cuomo’s actions, and certainly motivated them not to vote for Cuomo.

Cuomo hurt other minor parties as well, because he forced the legislature to triple the number of signatures for statewide independent candidates. Claudia De la Cruz would have been on the ballot without this change. She received 4,176 write-ins in New York City.

On November 4, many Michigan cities and towns held elections. Two Libertarian Party members were elected. Chris Clark was elected to the city council of Taylor, a city of 63,409 population in Wayne County. There were seven at-large seats and fourteen candidates ran.

Also, Scott Boman was elected to the Detroit Police Commission from district four.

On November 5, the California Republican Party and many individuals filed a federal lawsuit, alleging that the new U.S. House districts created by Proposition 50 violate the U.S. Constitution. The Complaint says the new districts were drawn to create a “racial gerrymander” to help Latinos, and that this violates the 14th Amendment. Tangipa v Newsom, c.d., 2:25cv-10616.

Here is the Complaint. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Josephine L. Staton, an Obama appointee.