Category Archives: Presidential Campaign

California has no law saying candidates for presidential elector must be registered voters. On October 1, 2016, the California Secretary of State accepted the American Independent Party’s slate of presidential electors, even though nine of them live in other states. Here is the AIP list (scroll down past the Democratic and Republican electors). But, on […]

Connecticut voters not keen on the major party candidates running for president next Tuesday have options. Twenty presidential wannabes successfully have registered as write-in candidates in the state, increasing the choices for voters from four to 24. Now, in addition to Republican Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill […]

Few voters do not know the top of the election ticket this year: Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine (president and vice president) face off against Republicans Donald Trump and Michael Pence for the White House. However, there are other choices for that office. Darrell Castle and Scott Bradley are running on the Constitution Party […]

Like so many voters this year, Jason Mutford looked at the crop of presidential candidates and decided he couldn’t hold his nose and vote for any of them. Jason Mutford of Albany, a teacher at Green Tech High Charter School, is an official write-in candidate for president in New York during the 2016 cycle. Mutford […]

More Rowan Countians than usual are expected to vote in next Tuesday’s general election, primarily because of the intensity of the U.S. President’s race. County Clerk Kim Davis said that 14,847 citizens are eligible to vote, including 9,287 Democrats, 4,463 Republicans, 632 persons listing themselves as members of “other” parties and 546 listed with a […]

While former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has received the lion’s share of the mainstream media coverage provided to third-party candidates in this highly volatile and unpredictable presidential campaign — much of it making a complete fool of himself — several other independent and minor-party aspirants for the White House have struggled for even a […]

On the afternoon of October 31, the Missouri Secretary of State revised an earlier decision, and ruled that Rocky De La Fuente may be a declared write-in for president. Earlier in the day De La Fuente had been told that he can’t be a write-in candidate, because he had run in the Missouri Democratic presidential […]

One can be thankful that in New Zealand we have such things as the Melbourne Cup, Powerball and an All Blacks test match against Ireland to keep us sane this week. With any luck, which we’d all like in abundance over the next 48 hours in particular, we will be able to try to ignore […]

Husted said at this point in 2012 there were 1.6 million requests for in person or mailed absentee ballots, compared to 1.4 million this year. Would he come home before Election Day? Officials are aware of both mistakes, and in one case an automatic process had canceled one of the superfluous ballots. Romney won the […]

Grand Rapids High School (GRHS) students completed their civic duty earlier this week by participating in a mock presidential election. This year, 282 high schools throughout the state of Minnesota participated in the Minnesota Students Vote 2016 program, the first statewide mock election with a focus on high school participation. At GRHS, 839 total votes […]