T. J. O’Hara, a businessman from San Diego County, California, received the fifth highest number of clicks in the Americans Elect nomination process. He has this article in the Washington Times, providing an account of how the Americans Elect web page and voting system was flawed.
O’Hara received 584 clicks. The candidates who received more clicks were Buddy Roemer with 6,293; Rocky Anderson with 3,390; Michealene Risley with 2,351; and Laurence Kotlikoff with 2,027.
The Egyptian presidential run-off was held June 16-17, but the results still aren’t out, and they won’t be for several days. See this news story.
This contrasts with the vote tallies in the May initial presidential election, when the results were released quite soon after the polls closed.
The Knoxville News Sentinel has reported that the Green Party is running two candidates for the state house in the Knoxville area, and that they will be the only opponents in the general election to the incumbents. See this story, from a television station’s web page, which refers to the newspaper story.
The Secretary of State’s web page refuses to list any Green Party or Constitution Party nominees for the November election, so far. The state is hoping to persuade the 6th circuit to remove those two parties and their nominees from the ballot. The 6th circuit has said it will not act on the state’s request until at or after the hearing on July 25. In the meantime, the parties and their candidates are on the ballot, and it seems petty for the Secretary of State to refuse to list the candidates.
As noted earlier, on May 17, the Constitution Party, the Green Party, and the Libertarian Party had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia against the unique Pennsylvania system that requires petitioning candidates and groups to be subject to as much as $100,000 in court costs, if their petitions are held to lack enough valid signatures. That case is Constitution Party of Pennsylvania v Aichele, 5:12-cv-2726.
The state has just asked for, and obtained, a 30-day extension to answer the complaint. The state’s answer is now due July 25.
On June 19, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the State Constitution’s one-year residency requirement for legislative candidates should be construed permissively. The case is Gray v Taylor, SC 92620. One incumbent Democratic legislator sought to keep her Democratic opponent off the Democratic primary ballot, on the grounds that he doesn’t live in the new district in which they are competing.
The State Constitution says the one-year residency requirement, in years after redistricting, is satisfied if the candidate lives in the same county “or” the old district. The candidate who was challenged lives in the same county, but he doesn’t live in the territory that comprises the old district or the new district. The State Supreme Court said he may run. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
