The News & Review of Sacramento has this interesting discussion of Sacramento County’s recently-located 407 absentee ballots from the November 2012 election. These ballots, cast by absentee voters, were accidentally misplaced and thus never counted. Now that they have been found, the election officials say they won’t be counted and will be destroyed next year. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
The Alabama Libertarian Party has nominated Dick Coffee for U.S. House, for the special election in the First district that will be held later this year. The party has already started petitioning to get on the ballot for that election.
Almost all city elections in Utah are non-partisan. However, the Utah Republican Party’s web page recently put up data revealing the party registration of all Utah city elected officials. See this story. At first the web page listed every official. Later the page was revised to list only the elected city officials who are registered Republicans. Democrats have criticized the Republican Party for posting this information. However, the party affiliation of any individual voter in Utah is a public record.
Rhode Island state income taxpayers are asked if they wish to send a small donation to the qualified political party of the taxpayers’ choice. The Moderate Party, the only ballot-qualified party besides the Democratic and Republican Parties, made a good showing. Of the total money contributed to all three parties, the Moderate Party got 6.25% of the total. Past results for that party have been: 2010 1.21%, 2011 3.42%, 2012 6.31%
The 2013 totals for each of the three qualified parties is: Democratic $15,558.71; Republican $8,143.56; Moderate $1,579.32.
On August 9, PhillyNow, a well-known Pennsylvania politics blog, posted this story about the efforts of the Pennsylvania Ballot Access Coalition to get a hearing for SB 195, the ballot access improvement bill.
Meanwhile, a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania ballot access-challenge system is pending in the Third Circuit.
