Charles T. Munger, Jr., has spent over $10,000,000 this year putting Proposition 54 on the ballot and advertising for it. See this story. Proposition 54 would prevent the legislature from voting on any bill unless it had been written and posted on the state legislature’s web page at least 72 hours previously.

Ironically, if this measure had been in effect in 2009, the legislature would not have been able to put the top-two measure on the ballot. Early in the morning of February 19, 2009, the legislature wrote the top-two constitutional amendment and passed it, between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. The legislature was meeting all night, trying to pass a budget. State Senator Abel Maldonado said in the middle of that night that he would vote for the budget, and thus enable it to pass, if the legislature first put his top-two proposal on the ballot. The bills to do that, SB 6 and SCA 4, passed before the public had any knowledge of these bills, and without any legislative hearings. Munger was the measure’s leading financial backer in 2010 when it was on the ballot as Proposition 14.

Many otherwise well-informed individuals do not remember, or never knew, how the top-two measure was put on the ballot. For instance, political scientist Seth Masket writes in his 2016 book, “The Inevitable Party”, that the 2010 ballot measure was an initiative put on the ballot with a petition campaign.

The Green Papers has this very useful list of which candidates in each state are qualified to receive votes. Scroll down to find the list of states. Click on any state to learn which candidates are on the ballot for president, with their label, and also which presidential candidates who are not on the ballot have qualified to have their write-ins tallied.

Also, use this link to see all 51 jurisdictions at once, although this link doesn’t show the ballot labels.

The deadline for filing for write-in status still hasn’t passed in 15 jurisdictions. Generally The Green Papers has not yet listed the write-in candidates in those places, but will do so when the deadline has passed. For example, the California write-in filing deadline is October 25, so The Green Papers does not yet list the California write-in candidates. From other sources, it is known that Evan McMullin and Rocky De La Fuente have already qualified as a write-in for California, but the California Secretary of State will not release any information on the write-in list until October 28. Therefore the Green Papers will wait to update its page for California and other states in which the deadline hasn’t passed. The other such jurisdictions are Alaska, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

In a few instances, the states release the names who have filed, as they file, without waiting for the deadline, so The Green Papers has the list for a few states in which the deadline has passed, although obviously the list in those states may grow.

On October 12, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker, an Obama appointee, ordered that the Florida deadline for voter registration be extended to October 18. Without the order, today would have been the last day to register to vote in Florida. The basis for the decision is the recent flooding. Florida Democratic Party v Scott, n.d. 4:16cv-626.

The Florida League of Women Voters had filed a similar lawsuit on October 11, League of Women Voters v Scott, 4:16cv633. Judge Walker combined the two cases. The hearing on October 12 for both cases started at 10 a.m., and the judge put out his one-page order at 10:48 a.m.