Libertarian Party member Grant Miller has been elected to the Tulsa, Oklahoma city council. He defeated an incumbent, Mykey Arthrell. However the race was close, and a small number of voters were erroneously denied a ballot that contained that race, so Arthrell plans to appeal the decision. See this story.
The Green Party national website lists 14 Green Party members who were elected or re-elected on November 8, 2022. See here. All are non-partisan races.
As a result of the November 8 election, Democrats have a majority in both houses of the legislature in both Michigan and Minnesota. Both states have a Democratic Governor as well. As a result, Democrats are free in those states to pass laws concerning presidential primaries. Democrats have been dissatisfied with the presidential primary calendar for some time, and feel that Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states to choose delegates to national conventions, are not good choices.
The OSCE has issued a preliminary report on the U.S. election of November 8, 2022. The OSCE is the ongoing organization formed by the Helsinki Accords nations. It monitors human rights in the countries that signed the Accords.
The Report criticizes U.S. ballot access laws. The chapter is titled “Candidate Registration” and begins on page fourteen. Footnote 76 has a link to the cert petition in Cowen v Raffensperger, the Georgia ballot access case which the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear last month.
Not one daily newspaper in the United States mentioned that the U.S. Supreme Court had refused to hear the case. Therefore, it is very good that the OSCE took note of the case. As readers of this blog probably already know, the issue was the Georgia ballot access law governing U.S. House elections. The law is so draconian, no third party has ever been able to comply with it, since it was passed in 1943. And no independent candidate has been able to comply with it since 1964, and back then, the petition was not due until October, the signatures were not checked, notarization was not needed, and U.S. House district boundaries did not cross county lines. Thanks to ElectionLawBlog for the link.
The New York Times has a moderately long article about Chase Oliver, the Georgia Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate. Both the internet version and the print version include a picture of Oliver. This is the first New York Times story on any Libertarian candidate all year. The story mentions that Oliver favors Ranked Choice Voting, which in Georgia would save the state from having general election run-offs.
