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.
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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.
On December 27, Nebraska State Senator Bob Krist, who is running for Governor in 2018, said that if he gets on the ballot via a petition to create a new party, that party will be called the United Nebraska Party. See this story.
On December 27, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Johnson v Commission on Presidential Debates, the case over whether federal anti-trust law has any bearing on the Commission on Presidential Debates’ restrictive policy on who gets into the debates. Here is a copy of the cert petition.
On December 27, the North Carolina Democratic Party asked a U.S. District Court Judge not to grant more time for the defendants to respond in North Carolina Democratic Party v Berger, m.d., 1:17cv-1113. This is the lawsuit on whether the state violated the U.S. Constitution earlier this year when it abolished primaries for judicial offices in the 2018 election.
However, later on December 27, the Judge did grant more time for the defendants to respond. The briefs in the case are now due by January 17. It is conceivable that by then, the law will have been amended anyway. The legislature convenes on January 10 and because the Defendants are the leaders of each house of the legislature, they probably have the power to change the law quickly.