I am going on a vacation November 22-30 to visit a friend who lives in Israel, so I probably won’t be able to blog very much during the remainder of November.

There are ballot access legal decisions that could come out at any time, in Alabama and California. There are also pending constitutional ballot access cases in other states, but they aren’t ready for a decision yet. Also the debates case decision could come out at any time (Level the Playing Field v Federal Election Commission).

New constitutional ballot access cases are likely to be filed soon in Florida, Maine, Maryland, and Texas.

Massachusetts registration tallies are issued very infrequently, only twice in election years. The Secretary of State has posted the October 17, 2018 tally. See it here. It does not include the totals for the parties that were not qualified in advance of the election. Therefore, it only has Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, and independent/miscellaneous. BAN is attempting to get the new figures for the unqualified parties.

The new percentages are: Democratic 33.11%; Republican 10.30%; Libertarian .35%; independent and miscellaneous 56.24%.

The last tally, for August 15, 2018, was: Democratic 33.22%; Republican 10.37%; Libertarian .32%; independent and miscellaneous 56.10%.

On November 6, the voters of Miami passed a county ballot measure, County Referendum 5, making it illegal for anyone to pay circulators on a per-signature basis for future county ballot measures. The League of Women Voters of Miami helped promote this. It passed with 64%, but it likely unconstitutional. It does not even permit initiative sponsors to pay a bonus to high producers. Thanks to Guy for this news.