The New York city charter amendment to use ranked choice voting for citywide offices in primaries has overwhelmingly passed, with 73% of the vote.
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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.
On November 1, the Democratic Party sued Georgia over the law that says the nominees of the party that won the last gubernatorial race are always listed first on the general election ballot. S.P.S. v Raffensperger. The case doesn’t have a number yet so has not yet been assigned to a judge.
Unlike similar Democratic Party lawsuits in Texas, Florida, and Arizona, this Complaint does not suggest that only major parties are entitled to an equal chance to be listed first on the ballot.
The first-named plaintiff is identified only by his initials, because he is not yet 18 years old, but he will be 18 by the time of the 2020 election. Thanks to Brandon Haynes for the link.