Because Washington state uses a top-two system, this year’s Treasurer race happens to have only two Republicans on the November ballot, Duane Davidson and Michael Waite. In the August primary, the three Democrats split up the Democratic vote, so that the two Republicans placed first and second.

Now, a Democrat has entered the race as a declared write-in. He is Eric Miller, and he is actively campaigning. Washington state (unlike California) permits write-in votes in November for top-two offices. However, so far, the media in Washington state has given him little publicity. Washington state doesn’t release write-in results unless the write-in candidate gets at least 1% of the total vote cast in that office.

Those who watched the October 19 presidential debate saw that Donald Trump said about Hillary Clinton, “She should not be allowed to run.” Here is one of the many news sources that show him saying that.

Under the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. Term Limits v Thornton, anyone who is age 35, a natural born citizen, and a resident of the U.S. for at least 14 years, is permitted to run for President. Eugene Debs ran for president in 1920 while he was in a federal penitentiary for “espionage” (actually for opposing U.S. involvement in World War I). Vincent Hallinan, 1952 Progressive Party nominee, also ran for President while he was in prison.

Voters in California receive government-printed pamphlets in the postal mail, giving arguments for and against state and local ballot measures. This article in the California Policy Center newsetter shows how the San Francisco Libertarian Party submitted an argument against a city bond measure. The San Francisco Voters Handbook did not carry the Libertarian Party ballot argument, and instead claimed that no argument against the measure, Proposition B, had been submitted.