The Constitution Party nominee for Greene County (North Carolina) Commissioner has won the election. Jerry R. Jones polled 3,232 votes in unofficial tallies, defeating his only opponent, Democrat Natasha Sutton, who received 2,908. The final figures will be somewhat higher.
This is the first time a party other than the Republican and Democratic Parties has won a partisan election in North Carolina since the 1890’s, when the Peoples (Populist) Party won many offices.
Al Jaeger has won re-election as North Dakota’s Secretary of State, even though this year he was running as an independent candidate. See the unofficial returns here.
New York requires a party to poll 50,000 votes for Governor in order to be a qualified party. The Libertarian Party and the Serve America Party both met this goal, so they both become qualified parties for the first time in New York. The Reform Party and the Women’s Equality Party both polled substantially fewer than 50,000 votes for Governor, so they will lose their qualified status. See the unofficial returns here.
Florida Amendment Four, which needed 60% to pass, has 64.4% of the vote, as of midnight east coast time. There was no statewide ballot measure anywhere in the United States more important than this one. It will enfranchise over 1,400,000 individuals.
On November 2, a U.S. District Court in North Dakota issued this 3-page Joint Stipulation, letting the six plaintiffs in Spirit Lake Tribe v Jaeger cast a vote tomorrow. The state requires photo voter ID that includes a street address, but the plaintiffs in this case didn’t have a street address, or at least didn’t have a street address that everyone agreed was correct. This is a common problem in North Dakota on reservations.
