The Arizona Secretary of State has released the official canvass votes for the August 2012 primary. It shows that Americans Elect has two congressional nominees, Richard Grayson in the 4th district and Stephen Dolgos in the 8th district. See this link.
On September 10, a CNN/ORC poll for the presidential race was released. See the results here. Scroll down to question 4, to find results for all candidates for registered voters, and for likely voters.
The registered voters show: Obama 50%, Romney 41%, Gary Johnson 4%, Jill Stein 2%, undecided/other 1%. This only adds up to 98%, so chances are the percentages for several candidates were on the verge of being rounded up.
The likely voters show: Obama 51%, Romney 43%, Johnson 3%, Stein 1%, undecided/other 2%.
On September 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, refused to grant a rehearing in Initiative & Referendum Institute v U.S. Postal Service. This is the case over whether individuals may sign petitions on interior postal sidewalks. Postal regulations allow circulators to stand on such sidewalks, but if the potential signer wishes to sign, the circulator and potential signer must then leave the sidewalk and go somewhere else. It is possible the case will be put before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Here is a link to the South Carolina Election Commission’s web page, showing candidates for President who are on the ballot. There will be five presidential nominees on the ballot, those nominated by the Democratic, Republican, Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties.
South Carolina has three ballot-qualified parties that only exist in that state, and which didn’t nominate anyone for President. They are the United Citizens Party, the Independence Party, and the Labor Party. In the past the United Citizens Party has nominated presidential candidates. In 2008 it nominated Barack Obama for President. Even though South Carolina permits fusion, though, something went wrong and Obama was only listed on the ballot as the Democratic nominee. In 2000 it nominated Ralph Nader. In 2004 it nominated Walt Brown, the Socialist Party nominee.
Also in the past, the Independence Party nominated Ross Perot for President in 1996, and Ralph Nader for President in 2004. Back in 1996 its name was the Patriot Party.
According to this news story, Wendy Rosen, the Democratic nominee for U.S. House, Maryland First District, is withdrawing from the race. However, the deadline has passed for her to remove her name from the November ballot. The First District is a swing district. The district elected a Democrat in 2008 but a Republican in 2010. The boundaries of the district are somewhat different this year than they were in 2012. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
UPDATE for September 11: the Democratic Party will choose a write-in candidate, because the party feels it can’t ask voters in the district to vote for Rosen. The last time a major party got behind a write-in candidate for U.S. House was in Texas in 2006, in the 22nd district. Shelley Sekula Gibbs was the endorsed Republican choice. She polled 61,938 write-ins, a very good total for a write-in candidate, but she lost to the Democrat, Nick Lampson, who received 76,775 votes. Tom Delay had been permitted to withdraw so there was no Republican candidate listed on the ballot. In the current Maryland race, Wendy Rosen remains on the ballot, so the Democratic vote will be split.
