Even though Nebraska has conducted presidential primaries for decades, in 2016 the Nebraska Democratic Party used its own caucus to choose delegates to its national convention, and ignored the results of its primary. But on December 8, the party’s state central committee voted to use its presidential primary in 2020 to choose delegates. Thanks to Frontloading HQ for this news.
It is customary for British political parties to release Christmas videos. The Green Party’s video here has received more attention that most such videos.
A bill has already been drafted for the Maryland 2019 legislature session, to let Montgomery County use either ranked choice voting or approval voting for its county officer elections. See this story. Thanks to Steve Goodale for the link.
The Daily Oklahoman, daily newspaper for Oklahoma City, has this op-ed in favor of ranked choice voting, written by Chris Powell, the Libertarian nominee for Governor last month.
All states have finished their official vote tallies except for West Virginia. The national totals for U.S. House by party (using the unofficial West Virginia returns, which will probably be almost exactly like the official ones) are:
Democratic 60,447,537; Republican 50,751,049; Libertarian 768,015; Green 224,919; Working Families 217,172; Conservative 207,094; Independent Parties (of Connecticut, Louisiana and Oregon) 74,672; Reform 66,579; Constitution 59,972; Independence Parties (of Minnesota and New York) 57,463; Working Class 53,102; Women’s Equality 41,317; United Utah 36,177; Legal Marijuana Now 15,791; American 15,011; Progressive 10,758; Independent American of Utah 6,686; Liberty Union 3,924; and Socialist Equality 2,213.
The Republican share of the vote, 44.67%, is its lowest share for US House since 2008, when it was 42.94%.
For accuracy, all data was checked against data in the Cook Political Report. The national totals don’t agree because the Cook Political Report, and also Ballotpedia, assign to the major parties the vote cast for minor parties that participated in fusion. BAN disagrees with this approach because if the voter chooses to vote for a minor party, it seems that voter’s vote should be recorded for the party that the voter actually chose.
