AP results pages for June 14, 2016 primaries/elections:
DCMaineNevadaNorth DakotaSouth CarolinaVirginia2 questions:
1) Should this thread perhaps be renamed from "2016 Congressional Primaries" to "2016 non-Presidential Primaries"? I don't see a thread like this on the Gubernatorial/Statewide elections thread, perhaps because most states don't have Gubernatorial elections this year and there wouldn't be as much interest in "lower-level" races. In Maine the only primary for Congress is for the right to lose to Chellie Pingree in ME-01. But there are several interesting primaries for the State Senate (less so for State House this year in my opinion) plus a Democratic primary for County Commissioner in my district.
2) Does anyone know how best to contact the AP to try to get them to add races for a primary? They don't have County Commissioner, Judge of Probate and Register of Probate for Maine while they do have County Commissioner races for Nevada (although only contested ones). The AP's Maine page is also missing Sheriff, for which there will be two primaries on the ballot, but both are uncontested.
2.1) Does Nevada only hold primaries if there are 2 or more candidates on the ballot (or perhaps on the ballot plus qualified write-ins)? The Maine Secretary of State's Office tried to get such a law through in 2015 in an omnibus election law revision bill but the presiding committee took it out, and next year (the omnibus bill was vetoed and that veto sustained in 2015) they just asked to get rid of primary contests where there were no candidates on the ballot or qualified write-ins, which went through. Also, there will be no ballots where there are no such candidates for any offices, so there will only be two Green (Independent) primary ballot types as the only Green candidates this year are one for State Senate and one for State House in a district entirely in that State Senate district.
