According to this story, the Kansas Republican Party has removed all Republicans who endorsed independent gubernatorial candidate Dennis Pyle from their posts as local precinct officials. Earlier the party had removed all those who had signed the Pyle petition, but this move goes further.

Senator Dennis Pyle, elected to the Kansas Senate in 2004 as a Republican, switched his registration to independent in June 2022. He appears to be the only independent legislator in Kansas in 100 years. He is still in the State Senate because his term doesn’t expire until the end of 2024.

Isaac Kelley was elected to the Timberville, Virginia, town council on November 8, 2022, even though he didn’t decide to run until noon on election day. The town was electing three members to the council. There were only two candidates on the ballot, so it was inevitable that one write-in candidate was going to win. But another individual, who already held local public office, was already running as a write-in.

Kelley received 100 write-ins; his write-in opponent received 82. See this story. Timberville has a population of 2,522 and is in Rockingham County.

Virginia has a declaration of candidacy requirement for write-in presidential candidates, but not for any other office. Therefore all write-ins (for office other than president) are valid. Thanks to Bryan Gilkerson for the link.

At the November 8, 2022 election, three minor party nominees received over 30% of the vote for a statewide office. They are David Zuckerman, Progressive Party, who was elected as Vermont’s Lieutenant Governor with 51.41% of the vote; Travis Steven Sanchez, Libertarian for New Mexico Auditor who got 38.07%; and Larry Bolinger, Legal Marijuana Now Party nominee for Nebraska Attorney General, who got 30.11%.