According to this story, the Guam legislature overrode the Governor’s veto of Bill 413. As a result, the 2010 provisional and absentee ballots will now be recounted for the Governor’s race.
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For some weeks, Virginia Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling has allowed speculation about his possible run for Governor this year to percolate. If he runs, he will run as an independent. The Republican Party is expected to nominate Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for Governor at the statewide nominating convention in May, 2013. Bolling was also elected as a Republican, in the last election in 2009. Virginia does not have registration by party. See this story. The headline of the story is misleading; it implies he might not be allowed to run, but what it means is that people doubt he could win. However, Virginia elected Harry F. Byrd, Jr., as an independent U.S. Senator in both 1970 and 1976.
The article quotes Virgil Goode on the difficulties of completing a statewide petition in Virginia if one doesn’t have a great deal of money.
Virginia is one of two states that elects its Governor in 2013; the other is New Jersey. Thanks to Peter Gemma for the link.
Oklahoma Libertarians have found at least one State Senator who will co-sponsor a ballot access bill, so it is likely that such a bill will be introduced in both houses of the legislature by the deadline, December 14.
Maine 2012 official election returns separate out the absentee votes received from outside the United States. The results show that overseas voters (which, of course, includes many military personnel) are more likely to vote for a minor party presidential candidate than the average Maine voter.
Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, and even the slate of presidential electors pledged to Ron Paul, all received a higher percentage of the overseas vote than they did in any Maine county (Rocky Anderson, like Ron Paul, was not on the ballot so this refers to his write-ins). President Obama also did far better among the overseas voters than he did in any Maine county, running ten percentage points higher among overseas voters than among Maine voters as a whole.
On December 10, U.S. District Court Judge William Lawrence ruled that Judicial Watch and True the Vote have standing to sue Indiana state elections officials. Those two organizations believe the Indiana voter registration rolls are not properly maintained, and that many names on the rolls should not be there. The organizations point out that in twelve counties, there are more registered voters than the census finds adult residents.
The case is Judicial Watch v King, southern district, 1:12-cv-800. The decision says the Indiana members of those organizations have standing because if their allegations are true, their Indiana members who are registered voters are being injured.