The California Secretary of State’s website shows how many ballots are still uncounted. See this link. As of the weekend of November 19-20, there are still 1,033,000 uncounted ballots.
The December 1 2022 printed Ballot Access News will be published a little later than normal, so as to be as comprehensive as possible for its election returns coverage.
At the November 8, 2022 election, Nevada voters passed Question Three, the top-five initiative, with 52.5% of the vote. It does not go into effect unless the voters pass it again in November 2024.
If it had been in effect in 2022, it is almost certain that no minor party candidates would have been on the November ballot for either Governor or U.S. Senator. At the 2022 primaries, there were ten major party candidates for Governor, and twelve for U.S. Senator. Based on what has happened in California 2012-2022, and Washington 2008-2022, the only choices for those two offices in November 2022 would have been five major party members for each office.
Four Libertarian Party nominees were elected or re-elected to partisan office on November 8, 2022. All four were unopposed.
Thomas Laehn was re-elected as County Attorney of Greene County, Iowa. When he was elected as a Libertarian in 2018 he was the first Libertarian to win a partisan election in Iowa.
Shannon Denniston and David Harryman were elected as Justices of the Peace in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
Lex Hannan was elected Justice of the Peace in Boone County, Kentucky.
On November 18, a Georgia state trial court ruled that the law banning early voting on Saturdays following Holidays does not apply to runoff elections. Therefore, Georgia voters can vote on Saturday, November 26. See this story. The Secretary of State will appeal.
On November 4, the Secretary of State of Florida granted recognition to the No Labels Party. Therefore, in 2024, it is free to run nominees for any partisan office, except for the only office for which the party is interested, President.
Even though No Labels Party is qualified, it isn’t recognized by the Federal Elections Commission, so under a law passed in 2011, it can’t be on for President unless it submits a petition of 145,040 signatures. The petition need not carry the name of the presidential candidate. It is believed that No Labels is circulating this petition.
The 2011 law is probably unconstitutional. The FEC does not grant national committee recognition based on voter support for the party. It grants it to any party that has already run nominees for president and congress in several states. The FEC will never grant national committee recognition to a new party. Therefore, the law discriminates against new parties, relative to old ones. In 2011 the Florida Secretary of State issued a ruling saying he would not apply the law, because he had no official knowledge of which parties are recoognized by the FEC. But in September 2016, another Florida Secretary of State reversed that ruling and did enforce the law, which kept Evan McMullin off the ballot as the Independent Party nominee. McMullin did not fight that reversal in court. In 2020 the Secretary of State did not enforce the law and put the presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism & Liberation on the ballot, even though it wasn’t recognized by the FEC and did not petition.
