Wyoming House Committee Introduces Bill to Drastically Increase Difficulty for Independent Candidates

Posted on by November 6, 2025
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On November 5, the Wyoming House Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee introduced a bill to drastically increase the difficulty for independent candidates to get on the ballot. Already Wyoming requires a higher percentage of the electorate to get on the ballot for presidential candidates running outside the two major parties. The bill wold increase the statewide independent petition from 2% of the last U.S. House vote, to 3%. It increases the petition for independent candidates for the legislature to 5%.

Also, it moves the independent candidate petition deadline from August to late May. Here is the text. The bill doesn’t yet have a bill number.

Secretary of State Chuck Gray, a Republican, is the force behind this idea.

An Unacknowledged Reason that Andrew Cuomo was Defeated

Posted on by November 6, 2025
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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.

Forward Party Wins Partisan Election in South Carolina

Posted on by November 5, 2025
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On November 4, Georgetown, South Carolina, held an election for Mayor and City Council. The election was a partisan election. Forward Party nominee Jay Doyle was elected Mayor, defeating the incumbent Republican, Carol Jayroe. The vote was 1,246 for Doyle, and 972 for Jayroe. Here is Doyle’s campaign website.

Georgetown has a population of 9,163 and is the county seat of Georgetown County.

As far as is known, this is the first time any third party has ever won a partisan election in South Carolina since 1894, when some Independent Democrats were elected to the state legislature. Although Strom Thurmond, States Rights Democratic Party, carried South Carolina in 1948, he was the Democratic Party nominee. The South Carolina Democratic Party had refused to list Harry Truman as its presidential nominee.

Two Libertarian Party Members Elected to City Office in Michigan

Posted on by November 5, 2025
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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.

Green Party and Libertarian Party Increase Registration in New York In Last Four Months, Despite Need to Write-in Those Choices

Posted on by November 5, 2025
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Green Party and Libertarian Party registration in New York have increased since July 2025, despite the fact that people who register in those parties must write in their choice on the voter registration form. Neither has been a qualified party since November 2022, because of hostile changes to the election code made in 2020.

Here is the registration form. Qualified parties are listed, each with a checkbox. But unqualified parties are not listed.

Green active registration was 15,522 in July 2025, and is now 16,184.

Libertarian active registration was 14,177 in July 2025, and is now 14,684.