The New Jersey Senate considered S3994 on Tuesday, January 14, but it did not pass it that day. Instead it amended the bill so that it can take effect for the 2025 election. New Jersey has elections for Governor and legislature in 2025 and the original bill, combined with its slow progress, would not have taken effect for the 2025 election.

The bill will probably get a Senate vote in the next few weeks. It raises the number of signatures for both primary candidates and general election candidates. See this story.

On October 30, 2024, the Florida Secretary of State said that the Jeffersonian Party had become a qualified party. It exists only in Florida. So far it has not had any candidates. Here is its website.

Florida now has sixteen qualified parties, far more than any other state. All parties in Florida nominate by primary, although if only one candidate files for a party nomination, he or she is deemed nominated and no primary is actually held. Most of Florida’s minor parties never run anyone for Congress or state office because the filing fees to run in Florida are so high.

New Hampshire Senator Bill Gannon has introduced SB 11, to let each U.S. House district elect its own presidential elector. Gannon is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and has already scheduled a hearing on the bill. Because the bill is perceived to help Republican presidential candidates, and because both houses of the legislature have Republican majorities, the bill is likely to pass.

If it had been law in 2016, Donald Trump would have won one presidential elector from New Hampshire, although there would have been no split electoral slate in 2020 nor 2024. Thanks to Tony Roza for this news. Maine and Nebraska are currently the only states that let each U.S. House district choose its own elector.