Congress will count the electoral votes on January 8 (Thursday) at 1 p.m.
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Illinois holds a special election to fill the vacant 5th U.S. House seat on April 7. The Board says any independent candidate, or any nominee of an unqualified party, must submit 12,586 valid signatures no later than January 27.
The seat is empty because the person elected in November 2008, Rahm Emanuel, has resigned his seat to become Chief of Staff to President-Elect Barack Obama.
The state is requiring these signatures to be collected in just 21 days. Federal courts in Florida, Georgia, Maryland and Wyoming have ruled that when the normal petitioning period is sharply curtailed, states must reduce the required number of signatures. As far as is known, no one has ever sued over this point in Illinois.
This webpage has links to all the Green Parties established around the world.
On January 5, the Minnesota Secretary of State posted new totals for Al Franken and Norm Coleman for U.S. Senate. No new totals were calculated for the other candidates.
Compared to the original tally, Al Franken gained 1,056 votes, and Norm Coleman gained 616. These new votes were sufficient to reverse the outcome. Whereas Norm Coleman had won by 215 votes in the original tally, the new numbers have Al Franken winning by 225 votes. Coleman does not accept the results and is contesting the recount results.
The Texas Secretary of State has corrected some clerical errors that had crept into the official November 2008 presidential returns, for the declared write-in candidates.
As a result, Chuck Baldwin gained 343 votes, Ralph Nader gained 226 votes, Cynthia McKinney gained 160 votes, and Jonathan Allan gained one vote.
Also, Brian Moore lost 778 votes, Alan Keyes lost 12 votes, and Thaddeus Hill lost 662 votes. The new totals should be posted soon on the nationwide presidential vote chart.