On December 5, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner was re-elected Secretary of State for another two years. The New Hampshire Secretary of State is elected by the legislature. Gardner needed 209 votes and he received 209 votes. Two ballots were required. See this story.
Here are the number of voters registered in various unqualified parties in Massachusetts, just prior to the November 2018 election. The Massachusetts Secretary of State does not put these totals on his web page, and it took a while to obtain the data.
The Green Party became ballot-qualified on election day, November 6, 2018, but it wasn’t ballot-qualified when this data was compiled. This tally is as of October 17, 2018:
Green 4,970
Socialist 1,037
Constitution 265
Reform 128
Working Families 55
Prohibition 16
The August 15 totals for the same parties were:
Green 4,932
Socialist 808
Constitution 244
Reform 119
Working Families 12
Prohibition 18
On December 4, the Wisconsin legislative supporters of SB 885 decided to abandon that bill. It would have moved the presidential primary from April to March.
On December 4, the U.S. Supreme Court asked the Utah government to file a brief in opposition to the Utah Republican Party. The response is due January 3, 2019. The issue is whether the First Amendment protects a party’s right to decide for itself how to nominate candidates.
On November 29, the Montana Secretary of State filed this response brief in Montana Green Party v Stapleton, 6:18cv-87. Like the state’s opening brief, the new brief does not mention any election law precedents. The issues in the case are the unequal distribution requirement for the party petition, and the early deadline. There are dozens of precedents on both these issues, but the state doesn’t discuss any of them.
