Very few news sources seem to have reported the electoral college vote for vice-president, but this article in “Lowering the Bar” has that information.
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Maryland State Senator Cheryl Kagan (D-Montgomery County) has introduced SB 64, to let registered independents join a party during the early voting period in primaries. Here is the bill.
Here are national totals for gubernatorial races, by party, for the November 2016 election:
Republican 9,688,152
Democratic 9,288,358
Libertarian 392,890
Green 69,107
Independent Party of Oregon 47,481
Constitution 23,441
Independent American 15,912
Liberty Union 8,912
Independent candidates got 30,019. UPDATE: totals have been corrected to fix a Delaware error. Thanks to Greg Koza for that.
All state election returns (except for write-ins in a few cases) are now official. Below are the national totals for each party for U.S. House for the November 8, 2016 election:
Republican 62,589,781
Democratic 61,584,781
Libertarian 1,712,061
Green 515,598
Conservative of New York 336,572
Working Families 278,171
Independence of New York 92,107
Constitution 127,376
Independent Party of Oregon 78,154
Legal Marijuana Now 57,911
Reform 56,232
Women’s Equality 45,960
Liberty Union 29,410
Independence of Minnesota 28,869
Progressive of Oregon 27,978
American of South Carolina 19,606
Working Class of Michigan 18,018
Independent Green 12,866
Independent Party of Connecticut 9,972
Veterans 8,696
Conservative of New Jersey 4,254
Natural Law 4,088
Independent candidates received 845,512 votes.
If anyone sees any error, please contact me at richardwinger@yahoo.com, or leave a comment. If anyone is aware of any other individual or group that has also compiled this data, please inform me. The author of America Votes, Rhodes Cook, will be compiling this data but not for some time yet. Eventually two federal agencies, the Federal Election Commission and the Clerk of the U.S. House, will compile it, but not for many months yet. I will furnish the state-by-state totals to anyone who asks. UPDATE: figures have been revised to correct a Delaware error. Thanks to Greg Koza for that.
On December 23, Paul Merritt filed this brief in Merritt v Padilla, c.d., 8:16cv-606. This is the lawsuit over whether the California Secretary of State violated Merritt’s constitutional rights when the Secretary of State deleted the words “registered independent voter” from Merritt’s statement in the June 2016 Voter Guide. Merritt was running for U.S. Senate. He, like all other candidates who chose to have a statement in the Voter Guide, paid for it. The Secretary of State not only deleted the words “registered independent voter”, he didn’t even inform Merritt of what he had done.