Two Prominent Washington State Republicans Support Evan McMullin

Two Republicans who once held high elective office in Washington state are urging voters to write-in Evan McMullin, the independent presidential candidate backed by some anti-Trump Republicans. Slade Gordon is a former U.S. Senator and Sam Reed is the former Secretary of State. Reed’s involvement with the McMullin campaign is very ironic, because while Reed was Secretary of State, the Washington legislature passed the law saying write-in votes should not be counted unless the vote-counting equipment suggests a write-in might have won the election. See this story.

All State Presidential Polls at Electoral-Vote.Com Were Released as Late as October 30

Electoral-vote.com is a long-running web page that shows the latest presidential poll in each state. Generally the states that are not battleground states have not had many polls, and those that were posted were quite old. But as of November 2, every state has a poll released October 30 or later. Every state poll includes Gary Johnson except New York and West Virginia, but most don’t include Jill Stein or Evan McMullin.

New York Magazine Story on How Top-Two System Has Removed Republicans from All Partisan Offices in Large Part of Los Angeles County

New York magazine has this story on California general election ballots in California. For the partisan offices, except for president, there are no Republican candidates in portions of Los Angeles County that have over 800,000 registered voters. Thanks to Carla Marinucci for the link.

The California Republican Party officially opposed top-two when it was on the ballot in June 2010, and also when it was on the ballot in November 2004. However, the 2010 top-two effort was pushed through the legislature by Republican State Senator Abel Maldonado and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the ballot measure campaign, the chief funder for the top-two measure was Charles T. Munger, Jr., a Republican Party officer in Santa Clara County.