On February 19, the Illinois Green Party released election results for its privately-administered presidential primary. Only party members could vote, and they could either vote on-line or by postal mail. Here is a copy of the ballot, which listed five candidates and a choice for no preference.

The results: Jill Stein 119; William P. Kreml 5; Kent Mesplay 2; Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza-Curry 1; Darryl Cherney 0; uncommitted 10. As a result, Stein received 20 delegates, 2 delegates are unpledged, and one is for Kreml. Thanks to John Andrews for this news.

As noted earlier, the Peace & Freedom Party of California asked the California Secretary of State to list Jill Stein on its presidential primary ballot, but the Secretary of State refused. A request was made for any writing that might have explained the Secretary of State’s decision. But that office has replied that such writings will not be made public, because they are “notes, drafts or memoranda that are not retained in the ordinary course of business and are exempt under the deliberative process privilege.”

Before 2012, the California Secretary of State had always printed the names of presidential candidates on the Peace & Freedom Party ballot, if the party had suggested those names. That precedent was broken in 2012, when the former Secretary of State refused to list Peta Lindsay on the grounds that she was under age 35.

Professor Derek T. Muller has collected the list of cases in which voters or candidates have filed lawsuits, arguing that Ted Cruz does not meet the constitutional qualifications to be President. They are in state court in Illinois, New York, and Vermont; and federal court in Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, and Utah. The list is posted in Muller’s “Excess of Democracy” blog. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.