According to this story, televised debates will soon be held in Delaware. Both the U.S. Senate debate and the gubernatorial debate include three candidates. Besides the major party nominees, the U.S. Senate race will include the Independent Party nominee, and the gubernatorial debate will include the Green Party nominee.
On October 16, a North Dakota voter sued the Secretary of State to overturn a North Dakota law that makes it a crime “to ask, solicit, or in any manner try to induce or persuade any voter on an election to vote or refrain from voting for any candidate or the candidates or ticket of any political party or any measure submitted to the people.” The law is found in the election law at 16.1-10-06. The law exempts bumper stickers and billboards.
There is no doubt that this lawsuit will prevail. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1966 struck down an Alabama law that made it illegal for a newspaper to run an editorial supporting or opposing any candidate on election day. The lawsuit is Emineth v Jaeger, 1:12-cv-139. It is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland. Thanks to the Center for Competitive Politics for this news. Here is the complaint.
Only two candidates are on the ballot for Florida State House, district 12, in Jacksonville: Republican incumbent Lake Ray and Green Party nominee Karen Morian. Morian has been endorsed by the Florida AFL-CIO, Duval Democrats, Jacksonville Young Democrats, Florida NOW, and other influential groups. Here is a link to the Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville’s daily newspaper) web page that has information about both candidates.
On October 10, the three ballot-listed candidates for U.S. Senate from Arizona debated each other. See this story. The three candidates are Democratic nominee Richard Carmona, Republican nominee Jeff Flake, and Libertarian nominee Marc Victor.
A Libertarian voter in Chester County, South Carolina, received this absentee ballot, which only lists President Obama and Mitt Romney for President. The voter complained and was told there wasn’t room for any other candidates. Now the county says it only printed one such ballot and all the others include all the legally-qualified candidates. However, neither the county nor the State Board of Elections will talk about how such a faulty ballot came to be printed.
