On the evening of November 5, a state court judge in Las Vegas ruled that Democratic nominee Andrew Martin, one of two candidates for Assembly, 9th district, is not a resident of his district. However, at that point it was obviously too late to change the ballot. The only other person on the ballot is the Republican nominee, C. Kelly Hurst. See this story. Thanks to Michael Schaefer for this news. The district has a substantial Democratic registration majority.
New Jersey will accept faxed ballots, and e-mail ballots, through Friday, November 9. See this story. However, voters must have requested the ability to vote using those methods by November 6. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
Politico, like many other news web pages, will post election returns. Politico expects to include every presidential candidate in its returns, if that candidate is on the ballot. Here is the link, although of course at this moment there are no election returns from any state, except for two tiny towns in New Hampshire. Thanks to Gregory Koch for this news.
According to this story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is registered “independent.” She is registered to vote in the District of Columbia. In recent decades, most U.S. Supreme Court Justices have been residents of northern Virginia, and Virginia does not have registration by party. But some justices have lived in Maryland, which does have registration by party. Thanks to HowAppealing for the link.
The Guam Election Commission has finished counting the November 6, 2012 presidential vote. Because Guam is on the early side of the International Date Line, voting finished there several hours ago. The results: Obama 23,067 (72.39%); Romney 8,443 (26.49%); Johnson 357 (1.12%).
In November 2008, the Guam presidential vote was: Obama 20,120 (62.35%); McCain 11,940 (37.00%); Bob Barr, Libertarian, 212 (.66%). Here is a picture of the 2012 Guam ballot. The presidential part of the ballot is on page two. Thanks to Walter Ziobro for the news, which is from the web page of a Guam television station, KUAM.
