Louisiana held its election for all statewide offices on Saturday, October 24. The two independents in the State House were re-elected. Jerome “Dee” Richard of the 55th district was re-elected unanimously because no one filed against him. Terry Brown of the 22nd district was re-elected, defeating a Republican by 6,627 to 6,026.

The only minor party candidates for state office were Green Party member Adrian Juttner for Agriculture Commissioner, and Libertarian Party member Jason France for State Board of Education, district six. Juttner polled 36,180 votes (3.49%) against a Republican and two Democrats. France polled 15,424 votes (11.3%) against three Republicans.

Juttner polled the largest vote ever received by a Green Party candidate in Louisiana. He was the first Green to run for statewide office in Louisiana other than President. Here is a link to the Secretary of State’s web page showing election returns.

In some races, no one got 50%, and there will be a runoff. So far, the Republican Party gained one seat in the House and the Democratic Party gained one seat in the State Senate.

Tom Campbell has this op-ed in the Orange County Register, suggesting that the new lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates, which depends on antitrust law, has merit.

Campbell was once director of the antitrust arm of the Federal Trade Commission. He also has taught antitrust law since 1983. He is now dean of the Fowler School of Law at Chapman University. He is a former member of Congress and was the Republican Party’s nominee for U.S. Senate from California in 2000.

The lawsuit is Gary Johnson v Commission on Presidential Debates, filed on September 28 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. 1:15cv-1580. The Commission hasn’t responded to the lawsuit yet. The Commission has received permission from the court to delay its response until December 8.

The United Independent Party of Massachusetts now has 15,083 registered members. As of September 9, 2015, it had 11,213. It is trying to get 40,000 registered members by November 2016, so that it will remain ballot-qualified for 2018. However, if it should run a presidential nominee in 2016 who gets 3% of the vote or more, it would remain qualified even if it doesn’t have enough registrants.

The largest number of registered voters any Massachusetts party (other than the Republican and Democratic Parties) ever had was the Libertarian Party’s November 2004 total of 23,900.