Better for America has been a ballot-qualified party in New Mexico since June 2016. It nominated Evan McMullin for president in the 2016 election, and because he polled over one-half of 1%, it is still on the ballot. In November 2016 it only had 121 registrants, but now it has 1,331. The New Mexico Secretary of State has new registration data every month; click here to see the data, including the latest tally, which is as of December 6, 2016.

Better for America need not run any candidates in New Mexico in 2018 to remain on the ballot, but it will go off the ballot in 2020 if it doesn’t run anyone for any partisan office.

On December 8, the Republican national committeewoman for Nebraska, Joyce Simmons, resigned from the committee. She did so to protest the national committee’s support for Roy Moore in the Alabama U.S. Senate election of December 12, 2017.

George Skelton, who has been the senior Los Angeles Times politics columnist for many decades, here refers to California’s general election in November as the “run-off.” The reference is near the top of his column.

By federal law since 1872, states must hold their congressional elections in November. If states want a general election run-off, they must hold it after November. Only two states, Louisiana and Georgia, have general election run-offs in congressional elections. All of this was clarified by a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1997, Foster v Love.

Skelton has been a vociferous supporter of California’s top-two system since it was first proposed in 2004.