October 1, 2010 – Volume 26, Number 5

1. U.S. DISTRICT COURT INVALIDATES TENNESSEE BALLOT ACCESS LAW FOR NEW AND MINOR PARTIES
2. NORTH DAKOTA LOSS
3. NADER SUBMITS EVIDENCE ABOUT DEMOCRATS IN 2004
4. U.S. SUPREME COURT SHOWS INTEREST IN BALLOT ACCESS CASE
5. CONGRESSIONAL PUBLIC FUNDING BILL PASSES COMMITTEE
6. NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE PASSES IN D.C.
7. HAWAII LOSS
8. CALIFORNIA WRITE-IN CASE GETS A MURKY DECISION
9. POST OFFICE WINS PETITIONING CASE
10. OTHER LAWSUIT NEWS
11. STATE LEGISLATIVE NOMINEES: DEMS, REPS FAIL TO RUN IN MANY STATE RACES
12. LIBERTARIANS BRIEFLY SAW POSSIBILITY OF ELECTING TWO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
13. LABOR PARTY ON BALLOT IN ITS FIRST PARTISAN ELECTION
14. POLL SHOWS SUPPORT FOR NEW PARTY
15. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL

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See this news story for an update on the vote count for the Colorado state legislative race involving Kathleen Curry.  The race still isn’t decided.  It will probably depend on what a judge says about whether write-ins can be counted when the voter who cast the write-in vote forgot, or didn’t know, to fill in the oval next to the write-in line.

Preliminary election returns show these national totals for each party, in the November 2010 election, for the office at the top of the ballot.  “Office at the top of the ballot” means Governor.  If a state had no gubernatorial election, it means U.S. Senate.  For the four states that had neither a gubernatorial nor a U.S. Senate election, it means U.S. House of Representatives.

The 2010 results are:  Republican 49.1%; Democratic 45.6%; independent candidates 1.2%; Libertarian 1.1%; Constitution 1.0%; Green .6%; all other parties 1.4%.

By comparison, the 2006 results for the office at the top of the ballot were:  Democratic 49.3%; Republican 45.7%; independent candidates 2.2%; Green 1.2%; Libertarian 1.0%; Constitution .2%; other parties .4%.