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On February 1, 2010, Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed HB 245 into law. Among other things, it doubled the number of registered voters a party must have to be ballot-qualified, and it went into effect immediately.
The bill instantly removed several minor parties from the ballot, including the Constitution, Green, and Working Families Parties. [...]

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The Constitution Party is currently petitioning to place one U.S. House candidate on the West Virginia ballot. He is Phil Hudok, running in the 2nd district. His web page, http://www.hudok.com, is here. His web page has a blank petition form. He needs 2,582 valid signatures by August 1.

At the Broward Palm Beach New Times blog, Gail Shepherd reports on a local event planned for today on “electoral disenfranchisement,” that will bring together Green Party, Libertarian Party, Tea Party and independent activists:
[Green Party activist] Jayne King has banded together with some strange bedfellows: She says that the [...]

On March 19, the Governor of Mississippi signed SB 3058 which sets a 5 p.m. deadline for presidential elector paperwork. This bill came into existence in part because of a dispute over a 2008 filing by Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore.

Green Party activist, and former Green Party candidate for Babylon Town Supervisor, Ian Wilder, gives his thoughts on the health care debate. Includes a critique of the reaction to Kucinich on the part of: Daily Kos, MoveOn, Black Agenda Report, Democracy Now!, and Ralph Nader.

Cindy Sheehan will be on the independent radio and television program Democracy Now! on Friday talking about her new project Camp OUT NOW, an encampment on the national mall, and the peace march on Saturday in Washington DC.  An email sent to supporters:
On the 7th tragic commemoration of the uneccessary invasion of Iraq, Cindy will [...]

Though it is focused on the 2012 presidential election, the top post on the PPP blog at the present moment is entitled: “A Third Party?” Tom Jensen writes:
Sifting through our last national poll really makes me think the time is ripe for a third party to have some success. [...]

A Green Party activist sounds off about Kucinich’s statements that he will support the Democrats’ newest version of the health care bill (which does not include the single-payer option.)

Tom Cleland is an activist from Minnesota who left the Green Party for the Democrats. Cleland wrote a blog post explaining in detail the background, and then the voting, at a March 14, 2010 Democratic Party convention in Minnesota. His frustration with various candidates and their issues, and with the outcome of the voting, has motivated him to announce a return to the Green Party.

Independent Eliot Cutler recently sat down with some of his Democratic and Republican opponents (there are also many other independents running) at a forum on natural resources in Maine, sponsored by businesses in that area.  DownEast.com reported the following on his responses:
Cutler sees natural gas as an important ingredient in lowering costs and supports an [...]

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The American Independent Party will have primary contests on June 8, 2010, between candidates who do not want the AIP to be allied with the national Constitution Party, and candidates who are loyal to the national Constitution Party.
The statewide candidates for the anti-Constitution Party group are: Ed Noonan, U.S. Senator; Markham Robinson, Governor; [...]

Sal Peralta, the Secretary of the Independent Party of Oregon, writes in to the Massachusetts Patriot Ledger to take issue with an editorial from earlier in the month, in which the paper mocked the very idea of an “independent” political party. “Where’s the independence in an independents party?” they asked:
it’s a mystery why Marshfield businessman [...]

Reposted from Ballot Access News:
On March 15, Lynne Williams announced that her petition drive to get on the Green Party’s primary ballot for Governor will not succeed. See this story. Although the Green Party is ballot-qualified in Maine, it still has ballot access problems. That is because Maine is one of three states that makes [...]

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On March 15, the 5th circuit refused to rehear Libertarian Party v Dardenne, 09-30307. Earlier the 5th circuit had ruled that the dispute is moot. Oddly, though, another panel of the 5th circuit had ruled a few weeks earlier that a similar lawsuit from Mississippi is not moot. The Mississippi case involved Brian [...]

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Montana has four ballot-qualified parties: Constitution, Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican. All four nominate by primary. Filing for the June 2010 primaries closed on March 15.
The Libertarian Party has a candidate for the only statewide office on the ballot, U.S. House. The Libertarians also have one candidate for State Senate, five for State House, [...]