The Jill Stein write-in in North Carolina is now 3,468, triple what had been reported yesterday. The number keeps rising as election officials examine the write-in ballots to see how many she has. She was the only declared write-in candidate for president in North Carolina. See here. Thanks to Kevin Hayes for the link.
The previous high write-in vote for president in North Carolina had been Ralph Nader’s 1996 total, but Stein has now surpassed that.
This article by Tosten Burks in Good Magazine says that the outlook that more state legislatures will approve the national popular vote plan is favorable. The article says this is because many Republican-majority state legislatures are warming up to the plan, because these states are not “swing” states and as a result, these non-swing states get mostly ignored in the presidential campaign.
Good Magazine was founded in 2006.
Baltimore has partisan elections for city office. Here is a link to the unofficial election returns for that office, which was on the ballot last week. Scroll down; Mayor is just underneath U.S. House. The Mayor election percentages: Democratic 57.56%; Republican 10.13%; Green 9.97%; write-in 22.33%.
When the official canvass is finished, we will learn what share of the write-ins went to Sheila Dixon, a former Mayor who lost the Democratic 2016 primary for Mayor but who entered the race as a write-in on October 11, 2016. Probably over 99% of the write-ins were for her.
The Green Party had never before run a candidate for Mayor of Baltimore who was on the ballot.
The Oklahoma Election Board has finished tally the votes for last week’s election. See them here. Oklahoma is one of only five states that bans all write-ins, so the returns aren’t as interesting as the returns of most states. Thanks to E. Zachary Knight for this news.
Law Professor Richard Briffault has this very detailed and neutral analysis of the rights of presidential electors. Thanks to the Election Law Blog for the link.
