The New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, will hear In re Tom Malinowski on Tuesday, December 10, in Trenton. The case had been filed in 2023, had been transferred to the Appellate Division, and had been dormant ever since. The plaintiffs are challenging the ban on two parties jointly nominating the same candidate. Mercer County, A-3542-21T2.
The Georgia Secretary of State has released write-in totals for the declared write-in candidates. See them here.
For president, the only candidates who had write-in status, and who were on the ballot in at least one state, were Peter Sonski of the American Solidarity Party, independent candidate Shiva Ayyadurai, and independent Jay Bowman. Sonski got 730 write-ins, Ayyadurai got 37, and Bowman got 30.
In 2020, the American Solidarity Party presidential candidate had received 701 write-ins in Georgia.
Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West were not able to be declared write-in candidates, because by the time they were disqualified, it was too late to file as a declared write-in. They were both on the ballot but signs at the polling places announced that their votes won’t be counted.
For U.S. House, 11th district, write-in candidate Tracy Verhoeven got 10,226 write-ins, which was about 2.5% of the total. She had been endorsed by the Democratic Party after the party’s primary had been won by a candidate who did not support Democratic Party stances on issues. Thanks to Kyle Bennett for the link.
On November 26, a Nebraska state trial court ruled that two initiatives concerning medical marijuana had enough valid signatures. Kuehn v Evnen, CI24-3244. Here is the 54-page decision.
The two measures had both been on the ballot earlier this month, and both passed overwhelmingly. But a lawsuit claiming that the initiatives didn’t have enough valid signatures had been filed before the election and had continued after the election.
Sponsors had circulated two separate petitions to avoid the charge that the initiative violated the single subject rule. Even so, the challengers argued that one of the initiatives violated the single subject rule, but the judge disagreed with that charge also.
It is peculiar that Secretary of State Bob Evnen had first ruled the two petitions had enough valid signatures, and yet he still joined the lawsuit that argued the petitions didn’t have enough valid signatures.
Politico has this story about U.S. House races in which a minor party or independent candidate polled more votes than the margin between the two major party nominees.
Matt Taibbi has this article on Racket News about Democratic Party-aligned forces who worked to sabotage No Labels, and when No Labels decided not to run any for president, the article shows how the same Democrats set their sights on other minor party and independent presidential candidates.
