The California Greens helped organize Fight H8 protests (against California’s Prop today. Their press release is here. “The Green Party of California very strongly opposed Proposition 8. We fully support the freedom to marry, and all the rights, benefits and responsibilities without discrimination based on sex, gender or sexual orientation. We oppose any legislation [...]

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In an open letter to blogger Steve Conn of Dissident Voices, Alaskan Independence candidate for U.S. Senate Bob Bird says, “I aggressively ran against foreign wars and adventurism, something Begich would not do, and certainly lost me some redneck votes. Pity.”
Bird, a former chairman of Alaska’s Right to Life organization, said he couldn’t get that [...]

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Posted at Perry County Greens
Green Party of Connecticut officials will file a complaint with local and state election boards that “REGISTERED” WRITE IN votes were not counted in all towns across the state as required by state law, it was announced today. This decision was reached after state Greens checked their own town votes totals [...]

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A pair of cantankerous old drunks who spend a large amount of their time sitting around a bar in Tarpon Springs, Florida, are being credited with thousands of votes for President. Despite not appearing on the ballot in Florida, John “Gary” Nettles and his running mate, William Bradford “Brad” Krones, have apparently beaten Alan [...]

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These are a few of the better county-level showings from third party Senatorial and Gubernatorial candidates around the nation…
Rebekah Kennedy – Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Arkansas
Marion County – 2,083 votes (32.88%)
Dean Barkley – Independence candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota
Sibley County – 1,976 votes (25.63%)
Jesse Johnson – Mountain Party candidate for Governor [...]

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The following is a list of third party candidates who polled more than 4% of the vote in a U.S. Senate or Gubernatorial race during the 2008 elections.
Why did I pick 4%? Well, it’s kind of a random number, but it’s my theory that if a candidate gets more than 4% of [...]

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In his column in New Mexico’s Rio Grande Sun, Robert Trapp, the newspaper’s publisher, writes, “We heard so much talk about ‘change’ in the just-concluded presidential campaign that I decided I would do just that — vote for change. I voted for Libertarian candidate Bob Barr. Of course Bob didn’t have a chance. [...]

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Washingtonpost.com reports, “You’ll never guess who really, really wants to go to the inauguration: Ralph Nader. The sometimes cantankerous outsider has sent an open letter to Barack Obama asking that third-party candidates — the Libertarian Party’s Bob Barr, the Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin and the Green Party’s Cynthia McKinney — be included among the Democrats, [...]

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