On April 27, the Hamilton County (Ohio) Board of Elections finally counted the disputed provisional ballots from the 2010 election for a Juvenile Court Judge. The count shows that the Democratic nominee, Tracie Hunter, defeated the Republican nominee, John Williams. This reverses the original count. The original count did not include certain contested provisional ballots. See this story.
The New Orleans Times-Picayue has this story about Buddy Roemer. He says he is mulling over a list of 23 possible vice-presidential running mates. He mentions the Americans Elect rule that requires his choice to be someone who is not a Republican.
Alabama SB 15, which passed the Senate on April 26, will be heard in the House Constitution & Elections Committee on May 2, Wednesday, at 9 a.m. The hearing is in Hearing Room 123. The only business of the committee that day will be SB 15, the ballot access improvement bill.
According to Michael Drucker’s The Independent View, only 20,749 Republican voters voted in the April 24 presidential primary within New York city. The only party that had a presidential primary in New York this year was the Republican Party. The cost of administering the presidential primary within New York city, divided by the number of voters who participated, works out to $578.34 per vote cast.
As previously reported, because the Virginia Governor and the Virginia legislature changed the effective date of HB 1151, the Libertarian Party’s presidential petition, which had 2,100 signatures, is not valid and the party must start all over. The Virginia Green Party’s petition, which had almost 2,000 signatures, is also now invalid.
As reported earlier, the legislature had unanimously passed HB 1151 on March 2, saying that the old U.S. House district lines can be used in years after redistricting, if the redistricting had not been done until the election law year itself. No one could have guessed that on the last possible day to act, April 10, the Governor would ask the legislature to change the effective date of that bill from “now” to 2013. Nor could it be known that the legislature would agree with the Governor’s request, which it did on April 18. Because the Virginia petition requires the presidential elector candidates to be listed, and there is a residency requirement for each elector, the old petitions are worthless. Each of the parties had one candidate for presidential elector who was put into a different district.
