New Hampshire Presidential Write-ins Tallied

Posted on by December 16, 2024
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Jonathan Makeley has examined the November 2024 election returns reported by each New Hampshire town. These documents include write-ins for president. He finds these totals for presidential candidates who were not on the New Hampshire ballot but who were on in at least one state: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 319; Peter Sonski 134; Claudia De la Cruz 126; Cornel West 47; Vermin Supreme 47; Randall Terry 15; Shiva Ayyadurai 10; Joel Skousen 4.

New Hampshire doesn’t have a procedure for a write-in candidate to file a declaration of write-in candidacy. The Secretary of State sometimes compiles the write-ins for candidates he deems of interest, and includes them in the official election returns. But other times he doesn’t. It is not known if the Secretary of State will include these results.

Tennessee Files Sixth Circuit Brief in Defense of its Ballot Access Law for Political Parties

Posted on by December 15, 2024
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On December 13, Tennessee filed this brief in Darnell v Hargett, 24-5856. This is the Libertarian Party lawsuit against the Tennessee procedure for a political party to qualify for the ballot, which is so difficult, it has not been used successfully since 1968 when the American Party and George Wallace qualified.

The state’s brief does not discuss the harm done to voters by the state’s policy. Because Tennessee has easy independent candidate procedures, minor parties always use those. But in Tennessee, candidates who use the independent procedure cannot have a partisan label on the ballot next to their names, other than the word “independent.” So the voters aren’t able to know which party the various candidates represent, unless they have the information from some source other than the ballot. Courts have been unanimous that voter confusion is an evil that should be avoided if at all possible.

Vermont Secretary of State Tallies All Write-ins

Posted on by December 15, 2024
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Vermont does not have a procedure for write-in candidates to file a declaration of write-in candidacy. Instead it simply tallies all write-in votes.

For president, these candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state received these totals: Jill Stein 897; Peter Sonski 53; Shiva Ayyadurai 8; Vermin Supreme 9; Randall Terry 6.

To see the list, see here. Click on “Total write-ins”, which is found underneath the totals for the presidential candidates who were on the ballot.

Delaware Releases Write-in Totals

Posted on by December 15, 2024
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The Delaware Election Commission has released this write-in tally from last month’s election.

For presidential candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state, the totals are: Jill Stein 914; Peter Sonski 98; Cornel West 96; Claudia De la Cruz 87; Shiva Ayyadurai 4. To get the totals, one must add up the county totals. Delaware only has three counties.

Brighton, Vermont, Identified as the Leading Center of Voting Strength for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Posted on by December 14, 2024
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Brighton, Vermont cast 12.77% of its presidential vote for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. This seems to be the strongest showing he had in the nation. Brighton is in Essex County, the most Republican county in Vermont. It is in the northeast corner of the state. In 2024 it cast 56.23% of its vote for Donald Trump, 29.60% for Kamala Harris, .62% for Chase Oliver, .47% for Cornel West, and .31% for Claudia De la Cruz (Jill Stein wasn’t on the ballot in Vermont).

Brighton also voted for the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Gerald Malloy. Malloy lost the election to Bernie Sanders, the independent incumbent who was re-elected. Here is a small article about Brighton, which has a population of 1.157.