The Texas Tribune has this interesting article about the problem Texas election administrators may have with the April 3 primary date. Texas does not have settled boundaries for U.S. House districts, or state legislative districts. The U.S. Supreme Court, a 3-judge court in Texas, and a 3-judge court in Washington, D.C., are all involved in lawsuits over these districts. If these three courts do not issue opinions within the next three weeks, the primary might need to be postponed. That would have important implications for ballot access. Texas law does not permit petitioning for minor parties or independent candidates until after the primary.

The Texas Tribune is an on-line newspaper about public policy in Texas, and was founded in 2009. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.

On January 10, a 3-judge U.S. District panel in West Virginia refused to stay its own ruling from last week. The ruling last week invalidated the state’s new U.S. House district boundaries. See this story. The state says it will ask for relief from the U.S. Supreme Court. The 3-judge court had invalidated the districts last week because of population inequality among the three districts.

This story has the number of votes cast in the New Hampshire Democratic and Republican presidential primaries for all candidates who were on the ballots. Two of the candidates who were listed on the Republican ballot only received 3 votes in the entire state. The results are unofficial but include all precincts except one.

In the Democratic primary, 10% of the votes cast were write-in votes. It is probable that a majority of those were for Hillary Clinton. It is a little-known fact that in the November 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton received thousands of write-in votes. Virtually no state reported these, because it is normal nowadays that states only canvass write-in votes for declared write-in candidates. But there were a few jurisdictions that reported all write-ins, and the number for Hillary Clinton was substantial, comparatively speaking. There were also thousands of write-in votes in November 2008 for Ron Paul.