Here are the election returns for New York city, from the November 7, 2017 election. The most important office up was Mayor.
One of the ironies is that Sal Albanese, who placed third, was not allowed into the mayoral general election debates, but Bo Dietl, who placed sixth, was in those debates.
On November 7, Green Party nominee Jules Mermelstein polled 5.6% of the vote for Judge of the Superior Court, a partisan race. The unofficial vote tally for him in this low turnout election was 106,614 votes. He is the first Green Party nominee for statewide office in Pennsylvania who polled as much as 3%.
The ballot listed four Republicans, four Democrats, and Mermelstein. Not everyone calculates percentages the same way in a multi-winner race. My calculation for the denominator uses the total vote cast, divided by the number of seats, in order to approximate the number of voters who cast a ballot. The state election returns page here uses a different method, which indicates that no one running got as much as 20%, which is misleading.
The daily newspaper for Opelika and Auburn, in Alabama, here covers two write-in candidates who are campaigning for the U.S. Senate, in the December 12 special election. They are Republican Mac Watson and Libertarian Ron Bishop.
On November 16, the board that sets pay for state legislators reduced the salary by almost 9%. See this story. Thanks to Richard Prawdzienski for the link.
The lawsuit Level the Playing Field v Federal Election Commission, 15-cv-1397, pending in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., still doesn’t have a final opinion. The next stage in the lawsuit will be a decision from Judge Tanya Chutkan on whether certain evidence should be included or excluded from the case. On November 10, the plaintiffs submitted this nine-page brief arguing that some evidence that they already filed should be allowed into the record. The FEC is trying to exclude that evidence.
