The Kansas Secretary of State has released the number of votes received by the declared write-in presidential candidates from the November 2024 election. Jill Stein 1,773; Peter Sonski 613; Claudia De la Cruz 270; Cornel West 169; Shiva Ayyadurai 8; Beij Boring 8; Doug Bell 5; Christopher Garrity 2; Ajay Sood 2; John Gibb 1.

Stein was the Green Party nominee; Sonski American Solidariy; De l Cruz Socialism & Liberation.

These results were obtained through the efforts of Tony Roza of the Green Papers. He had to use the state Freedom of Information law to get the results. These results are not on the Kansas Secretary of State’s website. That website doesn’t have the vote by county for the presidential candidates who were on the ballot, either. It just has the statewide totals and a massive file that gives the vote by precinct.

On June 3, U.S. District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi issued a seven-page order in Kim v Hanlon, 3:24cv-1098, the case over New Jersey’s ballot design in primary elections. The order says the new law may not have cured all the problems with the old system. In the old system, some primary candidates were given a far more prominent place on the ballot. The order says the new law still makes it possible for some candidates to be given more favorable treatment. So the case will continue.

Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as President Biden’s press secretary during the second half of his term, has switched her registration from “Democratic” to “independent”, according to this news story.