The Alabama Secretary of State webpage has election returns for the special U.S. Senate election. See here. By a very slight margin, the number of write-ins is greater than the margin between the two candidates named on the ballot. According to the Alabama Secretary of State’s earlier ruling, this means all write-ins will be tallied not only by the counties, but by the state. This will be the first time in history that the Alabama Secretary of State will have tallied up the number of write-ins in a statewide race, for all write-in votes. Alabama does not have a write-in filing procedure, so all write-ins are equally valid and all will be tallied.

However, Doug Jones is exceedingly close to having 50% of the total vote cast, and if he reaches that margin in the final count, then there won’t be a state write-in tally (however, the counties will have the information).

America Votes 32, which has election returns by county for the 2016 election, is now published. Libraries that always purchase the book have started receiving their copies. Unfortunately the book costs $250. A new volume is published every two years.

The Federal Election Commission still hasn’t published its book of 2016 election returns. It is expected to be out in January 2018. It includes all federal office, primaries and general elections alike, and will be titled “Federal Elections 2016.” It will be free.

Here is the November 7, 2017 New Jersey registration data. Since July 2017, Democratic registration has risen 1.4%; Republican registration has risen 1.0%; independent and miscellaneous registration has risen .8%; and registration into the state’s third parties has risen 22.0%.

Between July and November 2017, these are the increases for each third party:

Libertarian, 7,170 to 8,349
Conservative, 5,268 to 6,467
Constitution, 4,694 to 5,972
Green, 4,496 to 5,359
Socialist, 2,137 to 2,731
Natural Law, 1,881 to 2,370
Reform, 602 to 764