The Associated Press has this article on how the Electoral College works. The article has many useful details that are not generally known. It is encouraging that there seems to be greater awareness this year, than in a normal presidential election year, that the electors, not the voters, choose the president. If everyone understood that, no one would think that sore loser laws relate to the presidential election.
Rocky De La Fuente’s ballot access lawsuit against the Oklahoma presidential petition was dismissed on July 29 for inactivity, but an experienced ballot access attorney expects to re-file the case on August 8. Jill Stein will also be a plaintiff. Oklahoma requires an independent presidential candidate, or the presidential nominee of an unqualified party, to submit 40,047 valid signatures by July 15. Yet the state requires substantially fewer signatures for new parties. They need 24,745 valid signatures. Another strange characteristic of Oklahoma law is that an independent candidate for an office other than President needs no petition at all, just a filing fee. The U.S. Supreme Court said in Anderson v Celebrezze that states must go easier on independent presidential candidates than independent candidates for other office.
Bruce Fein, attorney for Gary Johnson and Jill stein in their lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates, is interviewed by Reason about the August 5 decision in that lawsuit.
On August 6, the Green Party nominated Jill Stein for President and Ajamu Baraka for Vice-President. Independent Political Report has the roll call vote for President.
Sauk County, Wisconsin District Attorney Kevin Calkins is running for re-election as an independent. In 2012 he was elected as the Republican nominee. See this story. The county has a population of 63,162.
