The effort to show that the Connecticut Libertarian statewide petition has at least 7,500 valid signatures is making good headway. The state had initially said there were only 6,999 valid signatures, but it turns out that the state made an addition error. The correct sum should have been, and is now acknowledged to be, 7,279 signatures. In addition to that, it appears that 116 petition sheets were lost while they were in the custody of either the towns, or the state. Unfortunately the Barr campaign did not make photocopies of all the sheets. In addition to all that, the Libertarian activists who are still re-validating signatures are finding signatures that are valid, but which had been improperly invalidated. That work continues.

The Washington Times of September 23 has this interesting analysis of various tricky outcomes for the upcoming presidential election, in relation to an electoral college tie, and other odd possibilities. Thanks to Professor Ronald Gaddie for the link.

Some Oregon activists who care about minor parties and independent candidates have created this webpage, to assist the campaign against the “top-two” initiative on the Oregon ballot.