After every presidential and/or congressional election in the United States, there are always three leading sources for election returns. For the 2014 election, however, two of those three sources still haven’t been published. The only one that has been published is “Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2014.” The author is the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. The publication is free but it is often difficult to obtain a copy; anyone who wants one might ask his or her member of the U.S. House for help.

The Federal Election Commission always publishes an election returns book, called “Federal Elections (insert year here)”. But it isn’t out yet for 2014. Congressional Quarterly always publishes “America Votes” but the 2014 volume isn’t out yet. These latter two publications are more useful than the Clerk’s book, because the latter two publications include primary election returns. But the Clerk’s book doesn’t. The two late publications will probably be out by the end of 2015.

On November 9, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed AB 4613, which provided for automatic registration of adult citizens. The legislature had passed the bill on June 29. Governor Christie waited until the last possible day for him to decide what to do about the bill.

This analysis at Presidential Debate News discusses the October 29 decision of the Commission on Presidential Debates to exclude every candidate who is below 15% in polls. The analysis notes that the CPD’s announcement acknowledges that the Commission was not unanimous. The CPD instead says that a “majority” of the board voted for 15%. The CPD won’t say what the vote was.

The analysis also points out that former President Bill Clinton is an honorary co-chair of the CPD, an obvious conflict of interest if Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.