a University of Massachusetts Lowell/You Gov poll released on October 28 shows that Question Three is now trailing slightly. “Yes” is at 41% and “No” is at 45%, with undecided at 15%. See here.
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The Boston Globe has this lengthy analysis of how top-two has affected elections in California and Washington.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) almost always runs its members in Democratic primaries. However, this year, in Rhode Island, it is running one of its members as an independent. She is Brittany Kubicek. According to the Secretary of State’s website, her ballot label is “Independent – Socialist.” She is on the November ballot for State House, 5th district. Her only opponent is the Democratic incumbent. See this story.
On October 31, the California Secretary of State released a new Report of Registration. See it here. The data is as of October 19.
California has six qualified parties. Although this Report differs very little from the last Report, which was from September 4, the only qualified party that lost members is the Republican Party.
It appears likely that turnout next month will be unusually high for a midterm election. Unfortunately, the more votes are cast in some states, the higher the petition requirements will be in 2028. These are the twenty states for which that is true for some statewide minor party and independent petition requirements: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming.