On July 22, Georgia held run-off primaries for the Republican and Democratic Parties. Bob Barr, who was the Libertarian presidential nominee in 2008, was defeated in the Republican primary in the Eleventh District. Here is a link to the state’s tentative election returns. In the 11th district, the vote so far is Barr 17,794; Barry Loudermilk 34,641. The Eleventh District is northwest of Atlanta and is centered on Marietta.
Jacobin has this interesting analysis of the New York gubernatorial race, and the relationship between the left, the Howie Hawkins (Green Party nominee), Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the Working Families Party. Thanks to Thomas MacMillan for the link.
Allies of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo plan to petition to get the “Women’s Equality Party” on the November ballot. The party would nominate Cuomo, so he would then be on the ballot with four lines: Democratic, Working Families, Independence, and Women’s Equality. See this story.
Because no one qualified to run for one Florida state house seat, the seat will become vacant later this year, and the state must hold a special election, probably in December, to fill it. See this story.
On July 22, a U.S. District Court in Michigan ruled that any absentee ballots received in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, city council race, that don’t include candidate Bob Dascola, cannot be counted. See this story.
Dascola had won a court order in the same case in May 2014, putting his name on the ballot. The election is in August. Some absentee ballots were mailed out by election officials that did not include his name. Absentee voters who were sent the defective ballot were also sent a correct ballot later. But the latest issue was what to do with any defective ballots that were sent in by voters. There will probably be very few such ballots.
