Earlier BAN had a post saying that Joseph Bishop-Henchman had obtained a tally of the write-in votes for president in the District of Columbia, in the November 5, 2024 election for president. This post explains how he obtained the information. He used the District’s Freedom of Information Act to obtain a picture of every ballot for which the write-in bubble had been filled in.

The reference books that report the official, final presidential vote for any election will probably refuse to include his findings, because they are not “official” figures, i.e., they weren’t released by the D.C. Board of Elections itself. The three primary reference books will be published by (1) the Federal Election Commission; (2) America Votes, a private firm that publishes election returns; (3) the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. None of the three books have been published yet.

It is possible that Bishop-Henchman or any other activist who cares about this can persuade the City Council (which writes election laws for D.C.) to amend the code and require a tally for the declared presidential write-in candidates.

On November 5, 2024, the Conservative Party polled 49.12% of the vote for Assemblymember, 48th district. This is in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Starting in 2020, there has been only one candidate on the ballot in this district, Simcha Eisenstein. Every year he is the nominee of the Democratic Party and the Conservative Party, with no other parties having a nominee. And every year, it is a close contest as to whether he polls more votes on the Democratic line or the Conservative line. In 2020 he had polled 51.62% of his votes on the Conservative line.

On December 31, 2024, the Tennessee Libertarian Party filed this Reply brief in Darnell v Hargett, 24-5856, in the Sixth Circuit. This is the case that challenges the Tennessee law on how new parties get on the ballot.