This year, the only two candidates on the Vermont ballot for U.S. House of Representatives are incumbent Peter Welch, a Democrat who is also the Republican nominee; and Liberty Union nominee Erica Clawson. This is the first time since 1976 that a Vermont U.S. House race has had only two candidates on the general election ballot. Vermont ballot access laws are lenient, and the state has had a tradition of lots of minor party and independent candidates for the past fifty years.

Liberty Union’s nominee for Secretary of State, Mary Alice Herbert, is also in a two-person race, against the incumbant Secretary of State, James Condos. Like Congressman Welch, Condos is the nominee of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

Mark Schmitt has this essay on Vox, explaining why the United States would do better with more than two political parties.

On September 16, the Texas Secretary of State reversed a previous decision, and now says that write-ins for Evan McMullin will be counted. Here is the revised write-in list.

Here is a newspaper story. Apparently the original list included one elector who had to be replaced. Thanks to a commenter for this news.