Politico has its web page all positioned to include election returns for president from every state. See the link, which of course doesn’t yet show any vote totals. Every candidate who is on the ballot in any particular state is listed. Thanks to Gregory Koch for the link.
Politico has this lengthy article about the California U.S. Senate race, and the future of the top-two system.
The article quotes Abel Maldonado, one of the fathers of the system in California. He seems to now accept the idea that Republicans will never have a chance at winning a statewide race in California, and celebrates the fact that Republicans are permitted to choose between two Democrats. Yet Republicans won gubernatorial races in California in 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 2003, and 2006, before there was a top-two primary.
On November 7, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that removes the 2018 sunset date for New York’s participation in the National Popular Vote Compact. See this story.
On November 7, a California Superior Court Judge heard De La Fuente v Padilla. The hearing lasted an hour. The judge declined to order the state to list Rocky De La Fuente as a declared write-in candidate. California polls include a list of all the declared write-in candidates, which any voter may see if the voter is voting at the polls. The state argued that at this late date it would be impossible to re-issue the list.
Further court action may occur after the election, to order election officials to count write-ins for De La Fuente.
De La Fuente wasn’t put on the write-in list because, two weeks after he submitted his electors, the state informed him that some of the addresses of his presidential elector candidates on the declaration of candidacy forms are different than the addresses at which they are registered to vote. There is no law, regulation, or instruction, saying that the addresses must match.
It is absurd for the state of California to prevent De La Fuente supporters from having their votes counted for such trivial reasons, especially when there is a bigger flaw with the Republican list. One of the Republican candidates for elector is ineligible under Article II of the U.S. Constitution, and the Republican Party did not submit any alternates. Also, the Secretary of State accepted nine presidential elector candidates from the American Independent Party who do not live in California. Finally, the Secretary of State accepted 108 presidential elector candidates for Donald Trump, even though California only has 55 electoral votes. So if Trump carried California, no one would know which electors had been elected.
The Louisiana Secretary of State says this is the number of registered voters in various parties, as of November 7: Democratic 1,344,741; Republican 898,448; Libertarian 14,088; Green 2,528; Reform 1,344; Conservative 844; Constitution 210; Socialist 72; Prohibition 2; independent and miscellaneous 760,249.
The percentages are: Democratic 44.49%; Republican 29.73%; Libertarian .47%; Green .08%; Reform .04%; Conservative .03%; Constitution .01%; Socialist and Prohibition under .01%.
The February 2016 percentages were: Democratic 45.66%; Republican 28.40%; Libertarian .41%; Green .07%; Reform .05%; Conservative .03%; Constitution, Socialist and Prohibition under .01%. Thanks to Randall Hayes for the information.
