The co-chairs of the North Carolina Green Party have an appointment for Friday, December 29, in the afternoon, with officials of the State Board of Elections. The purpose of the meeting is for the party officials to present the evidence that Jill Stein was on the ballot in more than 35 states last year. This evidence will put the Green Party on the North Carolina ballot for 2018 and 2020.
On December 27, the League of Women Voters lawsuit against Michigan’s U.S. House and state legislative districts moved ahead. The U.S. District Court arranged for a 3-judge panel. See this story. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
The Alabama Secretary of State has these official election returns for U.S. Senate from the special election of December 12, 2017. The percentages barely changed from the election night unofficial totals. On election night Doug Jones was credited with 49.92% of the total. Now he has 49.97% of the total. The official totals are: Doug Jones 673,896; Roy Moore 651,972; write-ins 22,852. The write-ins are 1.69%.
Anyone who wants to see who received write-in votes will be forced to wade through 426 pages of the appendix. There are copies of each county’s write-in tally. The Secretary of State doesn’t care to do the work of going through the county returns and totalling the votes for each person whose name was written in. In principle, that is little different than the State forcing everyone to go through the 428 pages to get the statewide vote for Doug Jones and Roy Moore. All write-ins in Alabama are valid votes, yet the state has chosen to make it easy for the public to know the totals for two particular candidates, but no one else.
The only third party candidate, Ron Bishop, Libertarian, appears to have received 1,123 write-ins. Bullock County only listed the names of individuals who received write-in votes, but did not say how many each got. The results from Dale and Morgan Counties are virtually unreadable. Some counties did not include a county total, but merely the total in each precinct. Those counties are Cullman, Jefferson, Lamar, and Pike.
Three of California’s 80 Assemblymembers have resigned in the last month. See this story. The vacancies will be filled in 2018 in special elections.
The Federal Elections Commission’s book of 2016 election returns is now available electronically. It is called Federal Elections 2016. The paper copies will be available in a few weeks. Here is the pdf.
The FEC obtained complete write-in results from November 2016 for president in Rhode Island, data that had not previously been available anywhere. See page 39. For instance, Darrell Castle, Constitution Party nominee, is shown with 52 write-in votes, which had not before been included in his national total.
