The Texas Secretary of State has these write-in total for the declared presidential candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state:
Peter Sonski, American Solidarity: 3,514. In 2020 this party had received 2,785 write-ins for president in Texas.
Claudia De la Cruz, Socialism & Liberation: 2,161. In 2020 this party had received 350 write-ins for president in Texas.
Cornel West, 1,688.
Shiva Ayyadurai, 421.
The Kentucky State Board of Elections has tallied the write-ins for the declared write-in presidential candidates. There are two parties that had write-in status in both 2020 and 2024 in Kentucky.
The American Solidarity Party write-in total for president in 2020 was 408; this year it is 610.
The Party for Socialism & Liberation 2020 total was 98; this year it is 389.
On November 4, the Daily News (serving the New York city area) carried an op-ed by Peter Lavinia, co-chair of the New York Green Party and a political science professor. It tells readers that New York state was the only state with only two presidential candidates on the ballot. Here is the op-ed, although it is behind a paywall.
On November 13, a bill to enact the National Popular Vote Plan was introduced in the Pennsylvania House. It is HB 2662, and so far it has four Democratic and two Republican sponsors. The lead sponsor is Representative Christopher Rabb (D-Philadelphia).
Last week, voters of Jersey County, Illinois, again chose Ben Goetten as their State’s Attorney. In most states the same office is called District Attorney. The office is a partisan office.
Goetten had already served four terms as a Democrat, but in 2023 he announced that in 2024, when he was up for re-election, he would run as an independent. He did so, and no one ran against him. It is believed that he is the first independent to be elected to that office in any Illinois county in over a century. Thanks to Sam Cahnman for the news.
Here is a 2023 news story about Goetten’s decision to become an independent.
