On November 5, the voters of Philadelphia elected seven coucilmembers-at-large. One of the winners is Kendra Brooks, Working Families Party nominee. She was not the nominee of any other party.
Philadelphia election law does not permit any party to run more than five candidates for the seven seats, and usually this means that the Democrats win five and the Republicans win two. This time, there were five Democrats elected, one Republican elected, and Brooks.
The New York city charter amendment to use ranked choice voting for citywide offices in primaries has overwhelmingly passed, with 73% of the vote.
Here is a link to the state totals for Governor Kentucky.
Montana bans out-of-state circulators from working on initiative petitions, and also bans paying circulators on a per-signature basis. Both laws are being challenged in U.S. District Court. Here is the latest brief filed by the plaintiffs in Pierce v Stapleton, 6:18cv-63.
Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane here writes that it is vital that the U.S. Supreme Court hear one or both of the “faithless elector” cases. He says the matter of whether presidential electors are free to vote for anyone who meets the constitutional qualifications must be settled.
