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Center for Competitive Democracy attorney asks District of Columbia to tally votes for declared write-in Presidential candidates

December 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

From Ballot Access News

On December 9, an attorney for the Center for Competitive Democracy wrote a letter to the District of Columbia Board of Elections, and asked that the Board tally the votes for the declared write-in candidates. The most prominent such candidates are Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin.
The letter points out that in 1974, [...]

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Tags: Independents · Third parties, general

Cynthia McKinney: ‘I am in Cuba Libre’

December 9th, 2008 · 22 Comments

Posted at On The Wilder Side
From Cynthia McKinney About A Close Encounter of a Different Kind
Hello! I am typing on a Spanish language keyboard and so, I am having to make adjustments. Please pardon me if things are not quite right. However, I am so excited, I hope you won´t mind me [...]

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Over 200,000 voters nationwide wrote in Presidential choices

December 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

According to Dave Leip’s US Election Atlas, which is still being updated as votes from the November election continue to be counted, at least 209,098 voters did not find to be acceptable any of the presidential candidates on their ballot and wrote in another choice. Some states do not allow write-in votes, or only count [...]

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Tags: Independents

Ballot Access News: Top eighteen presidential tickets by state

December 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments

BAN has a table linked here showing the state by state breakdown of the top eighteen presidential tickets. It is headlined:
2008 PRESIDENTIAL VOTE (not final)
as of December 7, 2008

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Tags: Independents · Third parties, general

Former Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Rich Whitney on the arrest and criminal charges against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich

December 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

press release from Rich Whitney sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com
Carbondale civil rights attorney and 2006 Green Party candidate for Governor Rich Whitney has issued the following statement today on the arrest and criminal charges against Governor Rod Blagojevich. Whitney has not formally announced himself as a candidate for governor in 2010
but has publicly acknowledged he is making [...]

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Chuck Baldwin: ‘Selective Constitutionalism’

December 9th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Posted at Chuck Baldwin Live
Many conservatives are up in arms regarding the charge that President-elect Barack Obama may not have been born in the United States and is, therefore, not qualified under the U.S. Constitution to be President of the United States.
Article. II. Section. 1. of the U.S. Constitution states, “No Person except a natural [...]

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Barr places second in Grant County, North Dakota

December 9th, 2008 · 13 Comments

According to Richard Winger at Ballot-Access News, Barr has outpolled Obama in at least one county. Although this county appears to have always rewarded Libertarian and Constitution Party candidates with more than the average number of votes, it has never been this high of a percentage.
The vote for president in Grant County, North Dakota was: [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Independents · Libertarian Party

IL Green Party Issues Statement on Arrest of Governor

December 9th, 2008 · 15 Comments

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested this morning by the FBI on corruption charges concerning statements he made about “selling” the open US Senate seat in Illinois. Apparently the FBI has him, on tape, making a number of outrageous statements regarding how the US Senate seat was to change hands, and what he was to [...]

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Jim Davidson on the importance of sunshine and open meetings to political parties

December 9th, 2008 · 67 Comments

Excerpt from an article at BostonTea.US
The Boston Tea Party bylaws require that the national committee and its members have open meetings where their deliberations are public and online. Doing so is vital to prevent the BTP from becoming the kind of party the LP has become, and the kinds of parties the DNC and [...]

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Tags: Non-left/right parties

Libertarian Party passes resolution condemning domestic deployment of US military

December 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Posted at LP.org
The following resolution was passed by the Libertarian National Committee on Dec. 7, 2008 at its quarterly board meeting:

RESOLUTION CONDEMNING DOMESTIC DEPLOYMENT OF THE U.S. MILITARY
WHEREAS, the domestic deployment of 20,000 uniformed military personnel planned by the United States government undermines the Posse Comitatus Act [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party