On February 24, the D.C. circuit heard Level the Playing Field v FEC, the presidential debate case. Here is a link to the oral argument.
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New registration (enrollment) data for New York: Democratic 5,900,507; Republican 2,611,227; Independence 432,943; Conservative 147,606; Working Families 40,335; Green 24,504; Libertarian 13,567; SAM Party 348; other and independent 2,530,099. These are as of February 10, 2020.
Percentages are: Democratic 50.43%; Republican 22.32%; Independence 3.70%; Conservative 1.26%; Working Families .34%; Green .21%; Libertarian .12%; SAM .003%; other and independent 21.62%.
In October 2018, the percentages were: Democratic 49.94%; Republican 22.76%; Independence 3.83%; Conservative 1.26%; Working Families .36%; Green .24%; Libertarian .07%; Women’s Equality .05%; Reform .02%; other and independent 21.48%.
As of Sunday evening, February 23, the Nevada Democratic Party website still has no election returns from the February 22 caucus. The latest press release is about the number of individuals who registered Democratic just prior to the caucus. See that web page here. Of course it will change in the near future.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the two cases on “disobedient” presidential electors on April 28. The Colorado and Washington state cases are being argued together. The court did not set any other oral argument on that day. Thanks to DemoRep for this news.
The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has published a poll for the March Illinois presidential primary. The pollsters asked Republican voters whom they intend to vote for, but they only asked respondents about President Donald Trump and Bill Weld. This is very peculiar, because the only two candidates on the ballot in the Republican Illinois primary are Trump and Rocky De La Fuente. Here is the poll. Scroll down to page nine. The results are Trump 89%, Bill Weld 4%, “someone else” 2%, don’t know 5%.
Illinois does permit write-ins in presidential primaries and does canvass the results for declared write-in candidates, so if Weld had filed as a write-in, he could have received votes. However, neither he nor anyone else filed as a write-in in the Republican presidential primary, and when no one files, the ballot omits a write-in space, so Weld will not receive any votes. Thanks to Darcy Richardson for the link.