Ballot Access News:
Alabama Representative Cam Ward (R-Alabaster) has agreed to introduce a bill to lower the number of signatures needed for minor parties and non-presidential independent candidates. He has been in the legislature since 2003. Thanks to Steven Gordon for this news.
Posted to IPR by Paulie.
Disclosure: I am a member of the executive committee [...]

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By Steve Kubby, 2008 candidate for the Libertarian Presidential and VP nominations, 2000 and 2008 VP nomination runner-up, and 1998 California Libertarian candidate for Governor. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Disclosure: I worked on Kubby’s 2008 campaign for nomination. Originally posted at Shawdowcabinet.US as well as emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Steve Kubby.
Former US Intelligence [...]

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In a press release today, Alan Augustson – one of five Green party candidates currently running in Illinois’ fifth district – criticized Independent Voters of Illionois Independent Precincts Association for hosting a forum for Democratic candidates but failing to host one for Republicans or Greens.
Augustson said, “Frankly, I do believe that a lot of Democratic [...]

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In a recent column, penned on January 20th, Bob Barr writes on how the “constancy of government’s intrusion” is “unlikely to change”. Bob Barr was the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate in 2008.
George W. Bush was president. The federal deficit was under $400 billion; and the national debt was “merely” a little over $9 trillion. Virtually [...]

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