The Library of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom has this analysis of the recent Parliamentary Election. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
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On December 20, New Jersey U.S. House member Jeff Van Drew changed his registration from Democratic to Republican. He represents the 2nd district, which comprises southern New Jersey, including Atlantic City. See this story. Thanks to John Geyer for the link.
This article quotes the Minnesota Secretary of State as saying that he can’t hold the presidential primary on March 3, because of the pending ballot access lawsuit De La Fuente v Simon, A19-1994. The case is in the State Supreme Court. The Court is expediting the case, but the Secretary of State tried to get it handled even faster, and the State Supreme Court refused his request.
The case has a voter co-plaintiff, James Martin, who says he wants to vote for De La Fuente. The article doesn’t mention De La Fuente’s name; it only mentions the name of the voter-co-plaintiff. The issue is the portion of the law that gives the party complete control over which names to list. The Minnesota Republican Party only wants President Donald Trump’s name on its ballot.
December 18 was the deadline for presidential primary candidates to file in Ohio. Here is the list, from the Secretary of State’s web page, which mixed Democrats and Republicans together. Fourteen Democrats and two Republicans filed.
No one filed in the Libertarian presidential primary. Candidates need a statewide petition and then small individual petitions for delegate candidates.
On December 19, Jill Stein filed this brief in Stein v Boockvar, e.d., 2:16cv-6287. This is the lawsuit filed in 2016 by Jill Stein against vote-counting machines in some Pennsylvania counties that did not have a paper trail. The state settled that lawsuit and agreed that all counties would soon have vote-counting machines that leave a paper trail, and also that allow a voter to see what votes that voter has just cast.
Stein re-opened the case when it became apparent that in some counties, the new technology still doesn’t allow a voter to see what votes that voter has just cast. In some counties the voter only sees a bar code, not the actual ballot.