Richard Winger at Ballot Access News reports that the Independence Party of New York’s leadership may be compelled to testify about a $1,000,000 donation given to the party in 2009. The Independence Party is involved in a criminal probe of New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s political contributions. Democratic Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the state’s top [...]

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Amador County, California had the 7th highest turnout of the 58 counties in California. The Ledger-Dispatch of Amador County reported on that figure, as well as reporting on the turnout by each party. Amador County elections department lists a total of 7,156 Democratic voters, representing 34.18 percent of all registered voters in the county. Of [...]

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South Carolina State Senator Jake Knotts has called gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley and President Barack Obama “ragheads”.  The Lexington County Republican Party called for Knotts, a Republican, to resign over the remarks. Knott responded: “This is not a Republican Party, this is a libertarian party,” Knotts said, noting the group did not censure Sanford last [...]

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Press release: The Green Party of Pennsylvania calls for an end to drilling for natural gas and other fossil fuels After a blowback spewed gas and toxic water in Clearfield, PA, plus serious incidents including deaths of oil and gas employees in West Virginia and Texas, nearly 2 months of oil flowing into the Gulf [...]

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Read the full piece here. The most successful minor parties survive by simply endorsing one of the major party candidates for governor, in the hopes that 50,000 New Yorkers will vote for that candidate, but on a protest line. If the candidate has made, or is believed to have the potential to make, decisions in [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Green Party Fields Senate Candidate to Challenge DeMint & Greene, only Three candidates to be on November Ballot As Democrats struggle with their choice of candidate, the best choice for South Carolina is the truly Green candidate – Tom Clements Columbia, SC — In what promises to further make the senatorial election [...]

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After an almost literally unknown candidate won in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for US Senate in South Carolina, and then it was revealed that the man is awaiting trial for a potential sexual offense, the Green nominee Tom Clements is garnering some attention.  He is an environmental advocate who says that “his only arrest were (sic) [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Free and Equal: Free and Equal Free and Equal Elections is proud to stand next to the Green Party of Texas today to release this joint statement concerning Texas media reports involving Boyd Ritchie’s anti-democratic attack on the Green Party’s recent petition drive in Texas. The statement from Free and Equal [...]

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Jerome “Jerry” Denham was a longtime member of the American Independent Party of California. He was also a candidate for US Congress in 2010, but he passed away shortly before the June 8th election in California. Denham passed away unexpectedly several days before the June 8 primary election, where he was unopposed in his second [...]

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Read the full thing here.  Hat tip to Third Party and Independent Daily. The journey from rabble-rousing candidate to sometimes-embattled municipal leader has been a learning experience, and sometimes a bruising one, she said acknowledged during a wide-ranging interview at the downtown offices of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, a local political group she co-founded. “The [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reported today on the former party affiliation of the  GOP nominee for Senate in Nevada, Sharron Angle. From 1992 until 1997 Angle was a member of the Independent American Party of Nevada, the state affiliate of the national Constitution Party. As it happens, one party on the ballot — the Independent [...]

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A press release issued by the campaign of Chelene Nightingale, the American Independent Party gubernatorial candidate, reports on Nightingale’s victory in the American Independent Party primary on June 8th. In the aftermath of a smashing victory, in which she won over 58% of the vote and 54 out of 58 counties, including the home county [...]

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Bob Barr, on his blog at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution called The Barr Code, has published a post concerning a possible ban on pre-paid cell phones, conceived of by Senators Schumer and Cornyn. This session of the 111th Congress has been one that will go down in infamy by virtue of its assault on privacy and [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: 2008 Vice Presidential Candidate Supports Rob McNealy for CD6 Aurora, CO – June 9th, 2010 – Rob McNealy, candidate for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, is proud to announce that 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential Candidate Wayne Allyn Root has officially endorsed him. In his formal announcement, Root said, “There is a new face [...]

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Naureen Khan in the Austin Statesman: The Libertarian Party of Texas is hoping to kick-start its most successful election cycle to date, beginning with the party’s convention this weekend in Austin. The state Libertarians will select their candidate for governor and other statewide offices Saturday and make revisions Sunday to the party platform, which is [...]

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Ballot Access News: North Dakota held a primary on June 8. The three qualified parties were Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian. Two Libertarians ran for statewide office. They each got enough votes in the open primary to qualify for the November ballot. North Dakota is the only state in which a ballot-qualified party cannot nominate candidates [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Los Angeles Times has this article about California’s Proposition 14, which focuses on some of the flaws in the measure. The story is a surprise, because before the election, everything in the print version of that newspaper was overwhelmingly favorable to the measure. LA Times: Politicians, analysts question new open primary [...]

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Ballot Access News: On June 10, Wendell Fant submitted approximately 30,000 signatures to be on the North Carolina ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. House, 8th district. Approximately 17,000 signatures are required in that district. The formula requires 4% of the registered voters of the district to sign. See this story. If the petition [...]

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Posted by Ralph Nader at Nader.org: When the Republican Gingrich devolution took over Congress in 1995, it stripped the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of all its funding and left it a shell with no experts to advise committees and members of Congress. Whereupon Congress was plunged into a dark age regarding decisions about [...]

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Ballot Access News: On June 8, a hearing was held in Solano County Superior Court, California, on the lawsuit over the identity of the state officers of the American Independent Party. The attorney for the faction that nominated Alan Keyes for President in 2008 asked for more time, so there will be another hearing on [...]

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