Nancy Lord, Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee in 1992, placed second in a five-person race for the Republican Party nomination for District Attorney of Nye County, Nevada. The primary was on June 8.

The vote was: Ron Kent 1,476; Nancy Lord 1,390; Charles Watkins 922; Michael Root 545; Bob Beckett 404. See this story. The incumbent came in fifth.

Another former Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee, Art Olivier, also ran in a major party primary on June 8. Olivier was the Libertarian vice-presidential nominee in 2000. On June 8, 2010, he placed fourth in a four-person race for the Democratic nomination in California’s 50th assembly district. He received 11.3%.

The California Secretary of State’s web page, as of early afternoon, June 15, shows that Proposition 14 passed with 53.8% of the vote. The margin had been reported at 54.2% on the morning of June 14. The change is because more and more votes have been counted. There is no likelihood that the outcome will change, however. UPDATE: on June 16, the margin is 53.7%. UPDATE: on June 18, it is 53.6%.

The closest statewide race for any California June 2010 election is the Republican race for Insurance Commissioner. Currently the total stands at 814,647 for Brian Fitzgerald, and 814,413 for Mike Villines.

According to this story, the Arizona Clean Elections Commission has denied a request from Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to change the public funding law, and let candidates who are receiving public funding also receive private money. Brewer wanted the Commission to implement this change by asking the U.S. District Court that is hearing McComish v Bennett to allow the change.

McComish v Bennett is the pending lawsuit in which the plaintiffs, who are candidates not seeking public funding, have temporarily (at least) won a court ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, stopping the Commission from giving extra public funding to participating candidates who have privately-funded opponents with a great deal of money.