On December 12, a U.S. District Court held a trial in Moore v Martin, the case over the March petition deadline for independent candidates who are running for anything except president (the Arkansas independent presidential petition is in August). The trial went well for the plaintiff, who wants to be an independent candidate in 2018. A decision is expected in the next few weeks.
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.
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.
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
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.
