This blog post enables readers to see a Maine sample ballot for the November 8, 2022 election. Maine uses ranked choice voting in general elections for federal office, but ordinary voting for state and local office. Maine puts the ranked choice races on one side, and the ordinary races on the other side, of the ballot. See it here.
On November 1, Marc Victor, the Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate from Arizona, asked voters to vote for Blake Masters, his Republican opponent. Victor remains on the ballot and a great many votes have already been cast. UPDATE: former Congressman Justin Amash says that he himself, as a Libertarian, disagrees with Victor’s decision. See here.
FURTHER UPDATE: see this Reason article.
Victor said he asked both the Democratic nominee, incumbent Mark Kelly, and Masters, to discuss public issues on a 30-minute zoom call that would be broadcast. Apparently Senator Kelly did not accept, but Masters did. Here is a link to the Victor website, which has a link to his discussion with Masters. Masters did not agree to support the legalization of marijuana; he said it should be a matter of state law. Masters would not outlaw putting a monument to the Ten Commandments on public property. But Victor overlooked both points of disagreement and endorsed Masters.
For the November 8, 2022 election, U.S. Senate, independent candidate Evan McMullin is listed first. Utah holds a random sample drawing of alphabet letters every election year. All the letters of the alphabet are placed in order, as determined by the drawing. In 2022, “M” placed closer to the top of the list than any of the other relevant letters (in the Senate race) of “L”, “H”, and “W”. The other candidates are Republican Mike Lee, Libertarian James Hansen, and Independent American Tommy Williams.
As already noted, on September 30, a U.S. District Court in Arkansas struck down the 3% (of the last gubernatorial vote) petition requirement for new or previously unqualified parties. October 31 was the deadline for the state to appeal, yet nothing has been filed, so it appears the state will accept the decision.
It is theoretically possible for the state to file something before midnight, but it seems unlikely that such paperwork would be filed after the close of business.
Pennsylvania elections officials say as of today, there are 44,826 registered Libertarians and 10,343 registered Greens. It isn’t possible yet to calculate the percentages because the state hasn’t given me the total number of registered voters in the state.
A year ago, there were 39,760 Libertarians and 8,350 Greens.
