The Iowa Secretary of State has released a registration tally as of November 1, 2022. The Libertarian and Green totals are not on the state website, but Libertarians have 12,100 registrants, and Greens have 2,966.
The percentages are: Republican 36.61%; Democratic 31.84%; Libertarian .64%; Green .16%; independent and miscellaneous 30.75%.
Percentages in July 2022 were: Republican 36.87%; Democratic 32.29%; Libertarian .63%; Green .15%; independent and miscellaneous 30.07%.
Frontloading HQ has this article about the Democratic Party’s 2024 calendar of presidential primaries and caucuses. As the article notes, in the previous three presidential elections, the Democratic National Committee had already set out a calendar for what the party desired, on the subject of which states go first in selecting delegates to the national convention. But for 2024, the party hasn’t done that yet.
The Forward Party of New York will make a major effort to help improve the New York ballot access laws. The message from the party to its supporters, sent November 6, says, “Forward NY will be working on election reform efforts in New York State. While there are many issues that need fixing, our primary focus for the next year will be ballot access.”
New York ballot access law was already faulty, even before the hostile 2020 changes. New York state is one of eleven states that lacks any procedure by which a group can transform itself into a qualified party, in advance of any particular election.
The California petition requirement for independent presidential candidates in 2024 will be 219,403 signatures, unless the law is changed. No independent candidate in U.S. history has ever overcome an independent petition requirement as high as that.
The requirement is 1% of the number of registered voters as of the October 24, 2022 registration total.
California only allows 105 days to collect these signatures. By contrast, California allows unlimited time for either a petition drive, or a registration drive, to qualify a new party. No one has overcome the independent petition requirement in California since 1992.
The petition must contain the names and addresses of 54 presidential elector candidates, which takes up a lot of room on the petition form, and which makes it impossible to circulate the petition until the presidential candidate has chosen his or her elector candidates.
I have asked my State Senator, Scott Wiener, to introduce a bill in 2023 to ease the procedure, but so far he has not responded.
The Oklahoma State Election Board has posted registration data as of November 1. See it here.
Percentages are: Republican 51.19%; Democratic 29.95%; Libertarian .86%; independent and other 18.00%.
On July 7, 2022, the percentages had been: Republican 50.66%; Democratic 30.86%; Libertarian .84%; independent and other 17.64%.
