The Oconee County, South Carolina sample ballot has a write-in line for president, even though state law says write-ins are not allowed in the general election for president. See the ballot here. UPDATE: commenter is correct. This is a Georgia ballot, not a South Carolina ballot. Both states have an Oconee County.
Guam votes for president, even though it has no electoral votes. Polls close in Guam at 8 p.m. local time, which is 5 a.m. in the eastern U.S. time zone. The votes are counted quickly and the results should be known throughout the United States in the morning of Election Day.
The presidential candidates on the ballot are the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, Green, American Solidarity, Prohibition, Socialist Parties, and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Guam has always voted for the winner except in 1980 and 2016.
The New York Working Families Party has made fewer nominations for Congress and state legislature this year than ever since it first became a qualified party. It qualified as a party in November 1998.
This year it only made nominations in twelve U.S. House seats (the state has 26 seats). This is the fewest ever, in the years in which it was a qualified party. All its U.S. House nominations are for the Democratic Party’s nominee except in one seat, where it has its own nominee. However, in that case, the party leadership would rather have nominated the Democrat, but an outsider won the party’s primary.
The party made nominations for 27 U.S. House seats in 2008, when New York had 29 seats.
For the legislature, this year the party made a nomination in only 94 seats. New York has 213 seats up. The party was most active with legislative nominations in 2018 and 2010. In those years, it had 146 legislative nominations.
For Justice of the Supreme Court, the party only made four nominations, out of36 seats up this year.
On November 1, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously refused to block the recent decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that allowed voters who make a mistake on their mail ballot to then cast a provisional ballot. See the order here. Republican National Committee v Genser, 24A408.
The type of the error involved in this particular case was the failure of the voter to enclose a secrecy envelope.
Late on Friday, November 1, the Sixth Circuit issued a five-page order in Stein v LaRose, 24-3923. This is the case over whether votes for Jill Stein (who is on the ballot) should be counted. The Sixth Circuit agreed with the U.S. District Court that the case belongs in state court. Therefore, the order denies relief.
The judges are Richard Allen Griffin and Raymond A. Kethledge (Bush Jr. appointees), and Chad A. Readler (Trump).
