Starting in 1980, Guam has an advisory vote for president in November. Here are the 2016 results: Hillary Clinton 22,972; Donald Trump 7,747; Emidio Soltysik, Socialist Party nominee, 1,352. This is the first time the Guam voted has voted against the person who became president. Scroll down to the bottom for the presidential results. Thanks to Matt Erard for the link.
The voters of Benton County, Oregon, have voted for a county initiative to use instant runoff voting for certain partisan county offices. The vote is 54.3% – 45.7%.
The only states with no ballot-qualified parties, other than the Republican and Democratic Parties, are these nine: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington. However, the Georgia Libertarian Party’s ballot-qualified status is only for statewide offices, not district and county offices.
After November 1996, there were eleven states with no ballot-qualified parties.
It is ironic that Minnesota is one of the nine states with no ballot-qualified third parties, because Minnesota has long been a bastion of strong third parties.
Donald Trump is about to be elected with a majority of the electoral vote, but Hillary Clinton will probably end up with 1,000,000 more popular votes. This will be the fifth time the popular vote winner has lost the election. All five times, the Democratic Party was the victim. The other elections were 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000.
As of 8:30 a.m., Fox News shows these national totals: Hillary Clinton 59,168,486; Donald Trump 59,032,954; Gary Johnson 4,006,298; Jill Stein 1,193,371; Evan McMullin 418,311. There are still tens of millions of uncounted votes. Thanks to M Carling for the link.
The Los Angeles Times of November 9 has this op-ed by Michael Feinstein, criticizing the top-two system for crimping voter choice.
