According to this Los Angeles Times article of November 6, California still has 1,600,000 uncounted ballots. There are hundreds of thousands not counted yet in Oregon and Washington.
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The Oregonian, Portland’s daily newspaper, carried this pro-Instant-Runoff Voting op-ed on November 6. It is by Blair Bobier, one of the founders of the Green Party in Oregon, and an attorney.
The Oregonian, Portland’s daily newspaper, carried this pro-Instant-Runoff Voting op-ed on November 6. It is by Blair Bobier, one of the founders of the Green Party in Oregon, and an attorney.
The Reform Party is not ballot-qualified in California; it went off the ballot in November 2002 because it didn’t poll at least 2% of the vote for any statewide race. It can get back on the ballot if it persuades 88,991 people to register into the party.
California makes it easy for an unqualified party to keep track of its registrations. An unqualified party simply requests this service. The California Secretary of State says there are 26,316 registered Reform Party members, as of the October 20, 2008 tally. However, this total surely is understated, because it shows “zero” Reform Party registrants in Sacramento County, a county with over 684,000 registered voters. Last year Sacramento County was reporting 1,128 Reform Party registrants. The Sacramento County Elections Department insists there are no Reform Party registrants. If anyone reading this can e-mail me at richardwinger@yahoo.com and tell me the name and address of any registered member of the Reform Party in Sacramento County, or anyone whom I could ask for such information, please do.
Even with the Sacramento County problem, the Reform Party seems to be increasing its registration. Between the September 5, 2008 tally and the most recent tally, it gained in registrations in Humboldt, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Lassen, and Trinity Counties. The biggest growth was in Kern County, which went from 346 registrants in September 2008 to 1,075 in October 2008.
On November 4, the Libertarian Party won one partisan election, for County Attorney of Anderson County, Kansas. Frederick Campbell was re-elected with no opponent.
Libertarian Party members won at least 16 non-partisan elections, in Arizona, California, Florida, Maine, and North Carolina. A list is on the party’s webpage, www.lp.org. The winners aren’t separated out in the very long list of the party’s candidates.
In addition to the Green Party’s winning a seat in the Arkansas legislature, two Green Party candidates won partisan elections: Art Goodtimes was re-elected to the San Miguel County Commission in Colorado; and Korine Bachleda was re-elected Newberg Township Clerk, Cass County, Michigan. In non-partisan elections, Green Party members members won at least fourteen races, in California, Oregon, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia. They are listed below in comment #2 (thanks!).
The Working Families Party elected a Registrar of Voters in Hartford, Connecticut, which is a partisan election.
An independent candidate was elected to the Washington, D.C., city council, in a partisan election.