Lawrence O’Donnell has a weekly appearance on MSNBC, called “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” He has been a writer for “The West Wing” TV show, an actor, and a political commentator. Here he publicizes the October 23 debate between four minor party presidential candidates; criticizes the major party candidates for failing to discuss indefinite detention and drug laws; illustrates that the minor party candidates did debate these issues; and finally, urges voters in non-swing states to consider voting for the minor party presidential candidate who best represents that voter’s views. But he suggests voting for one of the two major party candidates if the voters lives in a swing state. The segment is 8 minutes long.

On October 26, a U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, ruled that Ohio cannot automatically disallow a provisional ballot just because it was cast in the wrong building. Both the U.S. District Court and the Sixth Circuit had already ruled in this same case that provisional ballots are not automatically invalid just because they were cast in the wrong precinct, but the correct building.

The relief in the new court ruling only relates to instances at which the voter was at the wrong building because an election official misinformed him or her. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link. The case is Service Employees International Union v Husted, 2:12-cv-562, southern district.

Although Americans Elect has no nominees for state legislature, a former community organizer for Americans Elect is an independent candidate for State House in Maine. He is Christopher Kessler, running in the 122nd district in South Portland. He was a community organizer for Americans Elect in 2011 and the first part of 2012. See this newspaper summary of each of the three candidates in that race.

Americans Elect does have two nominees for Congress in Arizona, and is expected to be on the ballot in 2014 in ten to twelve states, despite its lack of nominees for any statewide office in any state this year.