Here is a link to the Connecticut Secretary of State’s web page, showing tentative election returns for the April 24 presidential primary. Not all towns have reported. At the moment this post is being written, the totals (from the towns which have reported) are: Romney 31,636; Paul 6,383; Gingrich 4,919; Santorum 3,346; uncommitted 907.
Delaware held its presidential primary on April 24. Now that it is over, the law permits individuals to change their party registration from one party to another. However, in thirty days, voters will again lose the ability to do that.
Therefore, the next 30 days in a crucial period for parties that are not now qualified, and wish to become qualified this year. The Green, Constitution, Americans Elect, and Working Families Parties can all be expected to launch drives to get more registered voters. The only two minor parties that already have enough registrations in Delaware are the Independent Party (which nominated Ralph Nader for President in 2008) and the Libertarian Party.
On April 24, Democratic congressional candidate Bruce Shuttleworth, who had been challenging Virginia’s ban on out-of-state circulators, altered his lawsuit. He is no longer challenging the state ban. However, he is maintaining his lawsuit against certain officials of the Democratic Party of Virginia, over the handling of his petition to get on the primary ballot this year. The case is Shuttleworth v Moran, eastern district, 3:12-cv-257.
He had originally been told he didn’t have enough valid signatures, partly because he used a resident of the District of Columbia to circulate some of his signatures. Then he filed a lawsuit, challenging that ban. Then the Democratic Party said it had found some more valid signatures, and put him on the ballot.
This is the second lawsuit in a row in which a plaintiff challenged the Virginia ban on out-of-state circulators, and then dropped the lawsuit on that point. The first was the lawsuit filed by several Republican presidential primary candidates late last year.
On April 24, a bill was introduced in the New York Assembly to provide for public funding for candidates for state office. See this story.
According to this story in The Hill, Ron Paul has more delegates in Minnesota than any other Republican presidential candidate, and will likely have a majority of the delegation. Paul also seems to have exactly half of the Iowa delegation.
Both states depend on caucuses (not presidential primaries), and the process of determining the final delegation takes months of successive rounds of conventions at various levels.
