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.

Ron Paul told the New York Times, in a lengthy interview, that it is “at least 50-50” that he will run for President in 2012.  The story says Paul only got 2% of the vote when he ran in 2008.  This is incorrect.  In the Republican presidential primaries, Paul got 5.6% of the total vote cast in all Republican presidential primaries, placing fourth.  John McCain got 47.3%; Mitt Romney got 21.7%; Mike Huckabee got 20.1%.

At the November 2, 2010 election, Bridgeport, Connecticut, only printed 21,000 ballots, even though the city has 63,000 registered voters.  This comprehensive newspaper story describes the cascading consequences of that decision.  The city ran out of ballots, so election officials photocopied more, but that in turn caused many other problems.  Thanks to Sam Edelston for the link.