Joe Mathews, an author and journalist who specializes in California government in politics, has this op-ed in the Ventura County Star, about the California election system.
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This news story describes the Michigan Working Class Party, and gives its history.
A UMassLowell Public Opinion poll has been released for New Hampshire. For Governor, it shows: Republican Chris Sununu 51%; Democrat Tom Sherman 35%; and these results for the two Libertarians: Kelly Haldorson 5%, Karlyn Borysenko 2%. Undecided and other equals 7%.
Haldorson is the Libertarian associated with the traditional Libertarian Party. Karlyn Borysenko is the Libertarian associated with the Mises Caucus.
For U.S. Senate, the results are: Democrat Maggie Hassan 51%; Republican Don Bolduc 41%; Libertarian Jeremy Kauffman 3%; undecided 5%. Kauffman is associated with the Mises Caucus. The other Libertarian faction has no candidate for U.S. Senate.
The Senate results are on page two; the gubernatorial on page three. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
Fox News has this story about the attempt to qualify the No Labels Party for 2024 ballots, for the purpose of placing a centrist presidential candidate on the ballot. The most interesting news in the story is that No Labels says it would nominate a presidential candidate by convention in the first three months of 2024.
No Labels is very similar to Americans Elect and its 2012 efforts, but Americans Elect used an on-line presidential primary for its process. Ultimately Americans Elect did not run anyone for president in 2012, and it asked states to eliminate it from the ballot. Nevertheless, there were a few candidates for non-presidential public office who ran under the Americans Elect label in 2012 and 2014.
On November 3, the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion in Greene v Georgia Secretary of State, 22-11299. This is the case in which Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had sued to stop the state from adjudicating her qualifications, relative to the “insurrection” language in the 14th amendment. The decision says that since Greene already went through the state procedure (which she won), the case is moot.
One of the three judges said that if the case weren’t moot, he would have held that the state had no right to judge her qualifications. The other two judges expressed no opinion on that. Thanks to ElectionLawBlog for this news.