See this web page, formed by people who want U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont to run for President in 2012.
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See this web page, formed by people who want U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont to run for President in 2012.
At the November 2, 2010 election, the minor party statewide nominee who polled the highest share of the votes in any state is Robert J. Healey, Jr., Cool Moose Party nominee for Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor. He polled 126,063 votes, or 39.2% of the total, in a 3-person race. The only other candidates in that race were Democrat Elizabeth H. Roberts, who got 54.5%, and an independent candidate named Robert Venturini, whose ballot label was “Hour with Bob.”
The Cool Moose Party has been a qualified party in the past, but is no longer. Its high share of the vote does not restore its party status, because in Rhode Island, only the vote for President or Governor counts for that purpose. Healey ran on a platform of abolishing the Lieutenant Governor’s office, to save tax dollars. The Republican Party endorsed him and did not run its own nominee.
On December 13, the New York State Board of Elections certified the election returns from the November 2, 2010 election. The results aren’t up on the state’s web page yet and the state won’t release any numbers over the telephone, but they did say that the Libertarian Party nominee for Governor, Warren Redlich, did not receive as many as 50,000 votes. Therefore, the party is not ballot-qualified for 2012 and 2014. UPDATE: the election returns are now posted on New York State Board of Elections web page. See here for the gubernatorial returns.
The gubernatorial results by party are: Democratic 2,610,123; Republican 1,290,017; Conservative 232,264; Working Families 154,847; Independence 146,646; Green 59,928; Libertarian 48,386; Rent is 2 Damn High 41,131; Taxpayers 25,820; Freedom 24,572; Anti-Prohibition 20,429. There were 4,423 write-ins.
A card drawing will be held in Eureka County, Nevada on December 20, at 3 p.m., to settle who will hold the office of Eureka County Clerk-Treasurer. The election of November 2, 2010 had resulted in a tie between the Independent American Party incumbent (Jackie Berg) and the Republican candidate (Carrie Wright).
The lawsuit filed by Berg to stop the card drawing was dismissed because the judge interpreted the law to mean that the lawsuit should have been filed 5 days after the votes were recounted, not 5 days after the recount was certified. The card drawing can’t be any sooner than December 20 because the law requires substantial notice to each candidate before the drawing may be held.