This McClatchy newspaper chain story about Laurence Kotlikoff says that he has filed as a write-in presidential candidate in every state that has such a procedure, except for North Carolina. Kotlikoff does appear to have the best resume for presidential candidates this year who are mostly depending on write-in votes. He has been diligently filing as a write-in in virtually every state, and had been planning on doing this since 2015. As the story says, he also got himself on the ballot in two states, Colorado and Louisiana.

However, he did miss filing as a write-in in Delaware, as well as North Carolina. The story says he plans to bring lawsuits against the states that don’t allow write-in votes for President.

On October 17, SurveyUSA released a poll taken in California. For respondents who say they favor Gary Johnson or Jill Stein, an additional question was added. It asks if the voter considers his or her vote more of a vote in favor of that candidate, or a vote against one of the major party candidates. Here is the poll. Scroll down to questions seven (for Johnson) and eight (for Stein).

The California Secretary of State here has the votes cast so far in the Mock Election being held in many high schools in California. With approximately 200,000 votes cast so far, the three minor party presidential nominees on the California ballot have 21.9% of the vote between them, whereas Republican nominee Donald Trump has 19.7%. Thanks to Gloria La Riva for this news.