On November 12, Mark Sanford, former Governor of South Carolina, dropped out of the race for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination. Thanks to Political Wire for this news.
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Pennsylvania just held its last election with a straight-ticket device. This Philadelphia Inquirer story looks at the election data from the November 5, 2019 election, and finds that the straight-ticket device was used by more Republicans than Democrats, which is surprising. However the data is somewhat ambiguous because a few counties didn’t provide data.
Seventeen Democrats qualified for the Alabama 2020 presidential primary. See the list here, from the Democratic Party’s web page.
The 2020 Alabama Republican presidential primary will have only three candidates: President Donald Trump, Bill Weld, and Rocky De La Fuente. Each candidate needed 500 signatures. See the Republican Party’s web page. There will also be a slate of unpledged delegates.
For U.S. House, 7th district, no Republican congressional candidate qualified, even though no petition was needed, just a filing fee.
This article explains how the 2020 Alaska Democratic Party-administered presidential primary will work. Voters will use a ranked choice ballot. They will vote for approximately a month, and the results will be counted and announced on April 4. Voting will occur at 20 vote centers around the state.