Washington Post Jennifer Rubin has this essay on choices available to anti-Trump Republicans, including their possibility of creating a new party. Thanks to Independent Political Report for the link.
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The Nevada Secretary of State has released a registration tally as of October 1, 2024. The percentages are: Democratic 30.04%; Republican 29.08%; Constitution (Independent American) 4.47%; Libertarian .81%; independent and miscellaneous 35.61%.
The number of Greens is not available and is contained within the “independent and miscellaneous”.
In May the percentages had been: Democratic 30.40%; Republican 28.76%; Constitution 4.37%; Libertarian .83%; independent and miscellaneous 35.64%.
This is today’s Cato Institute podcast, hosted by Caleb Brown, with Walter Olson discussing Ranked Choice Voting.
The 2020 case filed in New Jersey against discriminatory ballot format in primaries will soon undergo settlement talks. Coonforti v Hanlon, 3:20cv-8267. This is the case over the ballot format in 19 of New Jersey’s 21 counties, in which the primary candidates favored by the party organization receive a superior spot on the ballot. That system was enjoined earlier this year.
In recent months, the Democratic Parties of Union County and Middlesex County have stopped supporting the old law, as has the Burlington County Clerk.
It seems likely that the New Jersey legislature will address ballot format next year. It is hoped that New Jersey’s minor parties will participate in the legislative process, so that the discriminatory ballot format in the general election can also be fixed.
This reads as if one casino owner is trying to stave off competition. Kind of like our ballot access laws.
Here is the story from the Associated Press.