According to a post at Ballot Access News, Green Party State Representative candidate Richard Carroll faces only write-in opposition as the Democratic Party in Arkansas has changed internal party rules designed to bar Dwayne Dobbins from running for re-election.
Dobbins has plead guilty to sexually assaulting a 17 year old girl. The new party [...]

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Roger Snyder of The Green Party of New York State is credited by MS Magazine in an online piece at the magazine’s website about Cynthia McKinney’s nomination. Snyder, a long time Green Party member also runs the site News for Greens.
As a convenience to readers the full text of the article is under the [...]

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Press release posted on the LP Radicals yahoo group. Starchild has had various offices in the San Francisco and California LP, and is one of the spokespeople for this initiative.
The San Francisco Department of Elections announced today that the measure prohibiting city officials from spending money arresting and prosecuting people for prostitution, and mandating equal [...]

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“Chuck Baldwin is the best candidate for voters who cherish the institution of marriage between a man and a woman,” says the Pro-Traditional Marriage page at Chuck Baldwin’s new Web site. “Chuck does not consider the issue of marriage to be a contoversial [sic] issue or an issue that is exclusionary. It just makes [...]

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Ballot Access News reports:
On July 18, the Nevada Secretary of State announced that Ralph Nader’s independent petition has enough valid signatures. He is now officially on the ballot in 5 states, a number that will sharply increase in the next few weeks, as more of his petitions are submitted and presumably verified.

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Bob Barr will be a campaign visit to New Hampshire — where he may be one of two Libertarian presidential candidates on the ballot — on Tuesday. It is reported that he will spend the day giving interviews and talking with fellow candidates — presumably Libertarians.
There will be a meet-and-greet at 8:00 P.M. at Murphy’s [...]

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In this essay, LP radical and LPNY state chair Eric Sundwall advocates that radical libertarians avoid the BTP and stay in the LP. It is entitled Party Like It’s 1973, an apparent ironic reference to Party like it’s 1773 by BTP interim chair Jim Davidson.
I was somewhat intrigued when popular Libertarian blogger Tom Knapp started [...]

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In his syndicated column today, Robert Novak says Republican strategists are now “privately conceding that the GOP could lose Georgia’s 15 presidential electors for the first time since 1992 because of Bob Barr’s ballot position as the Libertarian Party presidential candidate. The most recent Georgia survey by the polling firm InsiderAdvantage, conducted July 2, [...]

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In her “Political Fix” blog on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website, Jo Mannies profiles Libertarian vice presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root, “a Las Vegas oddsmaker by profession” who “breezed into the St. Louis area today as part of a two-day swing through the state to raise money and his ticket’s profile.” In the generally [...]

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A poll taken for incumbent Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina shows Libertarian challenger Chris Cole running at six percent. Dole leads Democrat Kay Hagan 51% to 36%, with seven percent undecided. The Tarrance Group poll conducted July 7-9 has a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percent.

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A post on the Village Voice website Friday afternoon said Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney was scheduled to appear in Manhattan Friday evening to kick off her New York ballot access drive. The post says the Greens “hope to garner at least five percent of the general election vote, the amount required to [...]

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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has made the ballot in Nevada, the Las Vegas Sun reports. Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Matt Griffin “he has received information from the counties that Nader has nearly 5,000 signatures of registered voters on a petition to qualify for the presidential ballot. He said about 4,700 [...]

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Presidential candidate Charles Jay, in his capacity as a writer for BetUS.com, examines how Libertarian Bob Barr’s campaign may impact the results of the presidential election. Jay writes, “Whereas in the past the concept of libertarianism, which places a heavy emphasis on fiscal conservative and drastically reduced government, combined with a social liberalism that [...]

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