Election law professor Edward Foley here writes about the possibility that the Republican National Committee might ask all its presidential electors to vote for Michael Pence for President, even if Donald Trump remains the Republican presidential nominee. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
The New York times has this op-ed by former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, advocating instant runoff voting.
This story says that Norman Solomon did a poll of the Sanders delegates to the July 2016 Democratic convention, and 33% of them plan to vote for Jill Stein. Only 37% say they will vote for Hillary Clinton.
On October 5, the only general election U.S. Senate debate in California this year took place. Because voters must vote for either Loretta Sanchez, or Kamala Harris (both Democrats), or not vote at all, obviously they were the only two candidates invited. Press reaction to the debate was virtually unanimous. See Joe Mathews’ commentary here. See the Calbuzz story here. It is titled “Kamala versus Loretta, the worst debate in history.” The CNN story is amusing and is here. Finally, here is a TIME news story.
According to this story, the Texas Tribune has invited Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Evan McMullin to debate. However, it appears the Texas Tribune did not set out any objective criteria for debate inclusion. Darrell Castle and Rocky De La Fuente are on the ballot in substantially more states than Evan McMullin is on. It is possible the Tribune has found a poll that includes all of those candidates, and it is possible McMullin polled above some level of support, and that Castle and De La Fuente were below that level of support. But it is doubtful such a poll exists.
The debate would violate FEC rules if it has no objective criteria.
