Georgia is holding 236 legislative elections next month: 56 state senate races and 180 state house races. Only 46 of those 236 races have more than one candidate on the ballot. Yet whenever Georgia ballot access laws are challenged, the state claims its 5% petition requirement for district office is needed to prevent ballots from being too crowded.

There is only one independent on the ballot in any Georgia legislative race this year, and no minor party candidates for the legislature. Georgia hasn’t had any minor party candidates for the legislature on the ballot since 2004. Yet, generally, the big newspapers and broadcast stations in Georgia never discuss this situation.

This McClatchy newspaper chain story about Laurence Kotlikoff says that he has filed as a write-in presidential candidate in every state that has such a procedure, except for North Carolina. Kotlikoff does appear to have the best resume for presidential candidates this year who are mostly depending on write-in votes. He has been diligently filing as a write-in in virtually every state, and had been planning on doing this since 2015. As the story says, he also got himself on the ballot in two states, Colorado and Louisiana.

However, he did miss filing as a write-in in Delaware, as well as North Carolina. The story says he plans to bring lawsuits against the states that don’t allow write-in votes for President.

On October 17, SurveyUSA released a poll taken in California. For respondents who say they favor Gary Johnson or Jill Stein, an additional question was added. It asks if the voter considers his or her vote more of a vote in favor of that candidate, or a vote against one of the major party candidates. Here is the poll. Scroll down to questions seven (for Johnson) and eight (for Stein).