The Libertarian Party of Georgia has qualified twelve candidate to run for office in their state. At the top of the ticket is John Monds for Governor. Monds received over one million votes in his race for Public Service Commissioner District 1. The Libertarian Party of Georgia on Tuesday officially entered the 2010 campaign season [...]

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The Arkansas Green Party petition was validated by Arkansas’ Secretary of State today. Richard Winger reports that this is the third time in a row that their petition has succeeded. The Arkansas Secretary of State has checked the Green Party’s ballot access petition and found it sufficient.  The party needed 10,000 valid signatures and submitted [...]

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Ed Cox, the chairman of the Republican Party of New York, is reportedly interested in creating a third party to be used to help New York Republicans to win elections. A Republican source tells me that state GOP chairman Ed Cox let party chairs know last week that he’s moving forward with a bid to [...]

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In an email from Wayne Root, the 2008 Vice Presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party, he announces that he has joined the Board of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential nominee, best-selling author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian,” and elected member of the Libertarian National Committee (the [...]

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From KGUN 9: Arizona has added nearly 27,000 registered voters between April 19th and June 1st 2010 according to figures released by the Secretary of State’s office. As of June 1st 2010 Arizona had a total of 3,093,647 active registered voters. The GOP reported 7,852 voters added, totaling 1,116,643 active registered voters. Democratic registration climbed [...]

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Independent candidates for Congress across the country are making the case that the Democratic and Republican parties are part of the problem, not the solution.  In Maine’s Augusta Free Press, Chris Graham reports: Republicans are talking tough on federal spending and the national debt right now, but where we they just a few years ago [...]

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In a country where the Green Party has had much electoral success, which has led to it being perceived as abandoning its principals in a coalition government, a group of disenchanted Greens is starting a party called “A New Vision” that will “focus on issues such as political transparency, environmental issues and social justice.”  Read [...]

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From Third Party and Independent Daily, an interview with Jake Towne. Jake Towne is an independent libertarian candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s CD-15. Liberty Maven has called him the “anti-politician,” stating that “he errs on the side of freedom on every issue and he deserves every liberty-lover’s support.” I have been following Towne’s campaign since [...]

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Kristen Davis is a candidate for Governor this year in New York. She has achieved some level of public recognition because she is the ex-madam who came to fame during ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer’s sex scandal. Davis wanted to be nominated by the Libertarian Party earlier this year. When she failed to get that party’s nomination, [...]

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The Kansas Reform Party is one of the few remaining active Reform Party state affiliates. The party has consistently run candidates, even after the collapse of the national Reform Party. The party’s gubernatorial candidate made the Leavenworth Times a few days ago. Leavenworth, Kan. — Ken Cannon acknowledges his campaign doesn’t have as much money [...]

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The American Independent Party of California is split between two factions of activists. One faction supported Alan Keyes for President in 2008 and wants the AIP of California to be affiliated with the America’s Independent Party, a nationally organized third party organized around Keyes’ run for President. That faction held its state convention this weekend [...]

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The Constitution Party of Wyoming narrowly missed the ballot according to Ballot Access News, by a mere 388 valid signatures. The Constitution Party petition for ballot access in Wyoming was due June 1, and it needed 4,988 valid signatures.  The Secretary of State has checked the petition and says the party only submitted 4,600 valid [...]

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The following is posted at the Women’s Campaign Forum website: Lynne Williams is running for State Senate in Maine’s 28th District. Williams has spent many years as an attorney and organizer, working with disenfranchised communities to give them a voice in the halls of power. Williams now represents community groups that are resisting industrial development [...]

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Richard Winger reports that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) collected over 35,000 signatures to put Wendell Fant on the North Carolina ballot as an Independent The independent candidate petition to place Wendell Fant on the November 2010 ballot in North Carolina’s U.S. House district 8 does have enough valid signatures.  The law required 16,929 [...]

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From WhitneyForGov.org: Chicago, IL—Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney will be part of a large contingent of Illinois Green Party members who will march in the Gay Pride Parade in Chicago. Exhibiting their commitment to equal rights for all, Whitney will be joined by LeAlan Jones (candidate for US Senate), Matt Reichel (Congress), Tom Tresser [...]

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As part of a series of interviews with interesting Chicagoans, the Huffington Post recently interviewed the Green Party candidate for US Senate in Illinois, LeAlan Jones.  He recently polled 14 percent and has been getting a lot of coverage because of it.  Read the whole thing here. HP: Do a lot of Illinois voters know [...]

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In what may be a first for North Carolina politics, the first debate of the 2010 U.S. Senate election will include all ballot qualified candidates. The N.C. Bar Association is sponsoring a debate in Wilmington tomorrow which will include Libertarian Mike Beitler, incumbent Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Elaine Marshall.

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The Democratic Party has succeeded in removing the Green Party from the Texas ballot, for now.  From My San Antonio: Gov. Rick Perry’s close friend and former chief of staff tried to help Green Party candidates get on the general election ballot this fall as part of a larger effort by outside groups that state [...]

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Martha Abbott, the chairwoman of the Progressive Party of Vermont, is both running for the office of Governor and planning to drop out. The Burlington Free Press has the story. Martha Abbott is chair­woman of the Vermont Pro­gressive Party and also its gubernatorial candidate — but she plans to hold the second title only until [...]

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Richard Winger reports on the Oregon Independent Party, founded by Nader supporters, holding an Internet primary this year. The Independent Party is a ballot-qualified party in Oregon.  It has 54,920 registered members, which is 2.7% of the number of registered voters in the state.  Oregon only holds primaries for parties with registration membership of 5% [...]

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