The only states that have not finished tabulating the vote for president, at least for candidates on the ballot, are California and West Virginia, but both expect to release final figures by the end of the day, December 14. West Virginia would have been finished earlier except that Marshall County’s final tally is still incomplete.
However, write-ins remain to be tallied in some states. For example, Massachusetts says it won’t have the write-in tallies for the declared write-in presidential candidates until mid-January.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on December 19, Wednesday, at 10 a.m., on “The state of the right to vote after the 2012 election.” The hearing will be in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Probably by now the witness list has already been arranged.
It would be outstanding if one of the witnesses would tell the Senators that in Oklahoma, voters have not been allowed to vote for anyone for president in the general election for over a decade, except for the Democratic and Republican nominees. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the news about the hearing.
Last month, Jill Stein received 714 write-ins in Kansas. This is the 2nd-highest number of write-ins ever cast for president in a Kansas general election. The only candidate who received more write-ins was Ralph Nader in 1996; he received 914.
Kansas did not permit write-ins for President before 1990.
According to this story, the Guam legislature overrode the Governor’s veto of Bill 413. As a result, the 2010 provisional and absentee ballots will now be recounted for the Governor’s race.
