The Wisconsin Elections Commission has released the final tally of votes, including the write-ins for the declared write-in presidential candidates. The only declared write-in presidential candidate who was on the ballot in at least one state was Peter Sonski, of the American Solidarity Party. He received 561 votes. See the entire tally here.

Wisconsin has easy ballot access for presidential candidates in the general election, and it is rare for any write-in presidential candidate in Wisconsin to get many write-in votes, because all the candidates capable of polling a large number of write-ins are invariably on the ballot. A glaring exception was in 2020, when the Wisconsin Elections Commission kept Howie Hawkins, Green Party nominee, off the ballot because during his petition drive, his vice-presidential nominee had moved her residence, so that her address as listed on the petitions was incorrect. Hawkins got 1,089 write-ins in Wisconsin. That was the largest write-in total for a declared write-in presidential candidate in Wisconsin history. Thanks to Tony Roza for the link.

In 2020 the American Solidarity Party presidential nominee was on the ballot in Wisconsin. In 2016, it had write-in status in Wisconsin for president, and got 284 write-ins.

The Catoosa County, Georgia Republican Party tried to exclude certain candidates for county partisan office from its 2024 primary, because the county party officials felt the candidates were not bona fide Republicans. The county party also tried to place some questions on its primary ballot after a state court put the candidates on the primary ballot. The questions on the ballot were to be “1. Do you think anti-Trump Democrats should be able to get a court order to force the elections board to qualify them as Republican candidates for office? 2. Did you know that Steven Henry, Vanita Hullander, Jeff Long, and Larry Black were not approved to run as Republicans by the Republican Party?”

The County Election Board refused to place these two questions on the party’s primary ballot. It said the Georgia law against electioneering at the polls would prohibit these questsions. The County Republican Party sued in federal court to get those questions on its ballot, but U.S. District Court Judge William Ray ruled against the county party on September 9, 2024.

The county party appealed to the Eleventh Circuit, and the case is still pending. It is Catoosa County Republican Party v Catoosa County Board of Elecdtions, 24-12936. The party argues that it should have been able to exclude the candidates, and furthermore that it should have been permitted to have its questions on the primary ballot.

On November 26, the opponents of New York’s May petition deadline for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an extension of time in which to file their cert petition. The filing is interesting because it sets forth the issue. The request asks that the cert petition be due on December 20.