Posted at Ballot Access News Petitioning candidates for president who filed by the July 28 New Jersey deadline are Bob Barr, Roger Calero, Gloria La Riva, Cynthia McKinney, Brian Moore, and Ralph Nader. Also someone named Jeffrey Boss of Guttenberg, New Jersey, filed under the “Vote Here” Party label. His vice-presidential running-mate is Andrea Maria [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News The Prohibition Party expects to be on the ballot for president in these six states this year: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. That is modest, but it will be the most since 1980, when it was on in eight states for president.

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Posted at Ballot Access News Richard Carroll, Green Party nominee for the Arkansas state house, 39th district, still doesn’t know if he will be the only name on the November ballot or not. The Democratic Party of Arkansas had disqualified its nominee, Dwayne Dobbins, after he won the May 2008 primary. The Democratic Party took [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News Unfortunately, on July 29, the Kentucky Secretary of State retracted his ruling that the Libertarian Party of Kentucky could choose to have Sonny Landham on the November ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate instead of as a Libertarian. Now the choices are either: (1) the party can submit [...]

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Posted at Delaware Libertarian I’ve just done a state-by-state run of most of the more recent polls, and I have excerpted general results below. I have learned several things by doing this. 1) Adding actual third-party names (Barr, Nader, etc.) as Zogby does, really changes the response pattern. Not only did it break out that [...]

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Posted at Delaware Libertarian There are 173 Lone Star Libertarians running for office this election season. One way you can tell that the LPT is doing well is by the fund-raising numbers: The Libertarian Party of Texas (LPT) has reported $81,765.81 in contributions for the first six months of 2008. That is up from $54,204.57 [...]

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Posted by Andrew Davis on the LP National blog It’s been more than 36 hours since my plane landed in West Virginia and I began volunteering with the Barr campaign’s ballot access drive. Though coming to the end of my second day, it’s already been an interesting experience in a state traditionally dominated by Democrats [...]

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Via Polidoc Productions The State Convention for Peace and Freedom Party will convene on Saturday, August 2 and 3 at the Hawthorn Suites, 321 Bercut Drive, Sacramento California. At the convention Brian Moore, Gloria La Riva, Ralph Nader, and Cynthia McKinney will be seeking the Peace and Freedom Party’s presidential nomination. A debate among the [...]

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via http://polidoc.blogspot.com/ Kat Swift, Texan Green, reminds us that “We are the change we seek” in her introductory remarks at the 2008 Green Party National Convention Presidential Candidate Forum in Chicago, IL on Friday, September 11. With Cynthia McKinney taking the nomination, Swift sets her mind on her next race, and it is a race [...]

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Posted by Starchild on LP Radicals Yahoo group. Starchild is an activist with the San Francisco LP. Most prominently, as many of you know, Carol Leigh (aka Scarlet Harlot) was on the Bill O’Reilly show. Unfortunately he did not give her much time to address the issue, as she had to spend most of the [...]

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Green Party press release. WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders said today that antiwar voters will not get an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by voting for presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama on Election Day. Green leaders urged Americans who oppose the wars started by the Bush Administration with bipartisan support in [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News Alabama is almost certain to be the only state with no independent or minor party candidates on the ballot this year, for any federal or state office other than president. On July 18, an independent candidate for Governor of North Dakota began circulating his petition. North Dakota had been the [...]

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