John Nichols in The Nation: California voters will decide [this] Tuesday [June 8] whether they want real choices in their elections or the limited options afforded them by the two major parties. Proposition 14, placed on the ballot as part of a political deal involving Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative insiders, would abolish the current [...]

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TPID: From ITNews: the Pirate Party warned that “Orwellian” law enforcement surveillance powers would degrade the privacy of Australian citizens. “CCTV does not solve crime, it does not resolve underlying issues that are the root cause of crime,” said Party Secretary Rodney Serkowski in a statement on Friday. “What it does do is create an [...]

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Socialist Webzine: On May 25, members of the Socialist Party USA joined the mass demonstration protesting the racist law SB 1070 in Phoenix, Arizona. The demo was called by the umbrella group Alto Arizona and completed a week of escalating civil disobedience actions. Party members report that “many connections and bonds were made today and [...]

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By Richard Winger in the San Francisco Bay Guardian: Proposition 14, a June 8 ballot measure, would mandate that all candidates for Congress and state office appear on the same June ballot, and that all voters use that ballot. Only the two candidates who got the highest vote totals could run in November. Even write-ins [...]

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Austin Cassidy at Uncovered Politics: Lawton “Bud” Chiles, the son of the late governor and senator, announced Thursday he is running for governor of Florida with no party affiliation. Chiles said as an independent, he’ll take no money from political parties, political action committees or “big corporations.” Florida is now the only state in the [...]

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Via Damon Eris at Uncovered Politics: Sean Swain is probably the most extreme left-wing candidate for public office you’ve never heard of. And no, he’s not a Democrat. In fact, he might have more in common with opponents of big government, insofar as he advocates the destruction of all government, that is. Swain is running [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org When the Executive Branch does not have worst case scenario planning for each kind of energy source—oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar and efficiency—the people are not protected. Enter the 24/7 oil gusher-leak by BP and Transocean – the rig operator – and the impotence of the federal government to do [...]

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Brian Doherty at Reason Online: On June 8, Californians will get to vote on Proposition 14, which would eliminate the current party primary system in favor of one open primary in which anyone could vote for anyone regardless of party registration, the candidates could list or not list a party affiliation as they wished, and [...]

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Regular readers of IPR are by now familiar with California’s “Top Two” Proposition 14, which would have the effect of eliminating all or almost all third party and independent candidates from the general election ballot, removing party labels from the primary ballot, and ending all write-in voting in the most populous US State. IPR’s first [...]

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New Libertarian National Committee Elected: New York Delegation Backs Most Winners (excerpt): Three separate ballots were conducted for the election of a new Libertarian Party Chair. On the first ballot, Wayne Allyn Root obtained 200 votes, followed by Mark Hinkle with 114 votes, Ernest Hancock with 82 votes, John Jay Myers with 70 votes, George [...]

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Posted by Dr. Tom Stevens at Liberty Lion: LPNY Gubernatorial Nomination Controversy: Supreme Court Of The State Of New York Intervenes (excerpt): Kristin Davis, Sam Sloan and Warren Redlich were the three announced candidates for the gubernatorial nomination of the Libertarian Party of New York in 2010. Warren Redlich, a Republican attorney, was considered the [...]

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TPID: Libertarian Party of Ohio Endorses “Stop Top Two” Initiative in California A press release sent to TPID via email: Columbus, OH – June 4, 2010. The Libertarian Party of Ohio announced today that it is supporting the STOP Top Two initiative currently underway in California. The Libertarian Party of Ohio Central Committee, as well [...]

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Darryl Perry at Free Patriot Press: When elections first began in the United States of America voters did not use government printed ballots. In fact no one in the world used a government printed ballot before 1856. This idea spread slowly to the America’s where the idea was adopted first in 1888. Richard Winger writes, [...]

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CONVENTION: Main Floor: OPENING REMARKS Douglass Gaking Chair, Boston Tea Party National Committee Good evening, fellow libertarians! Welcome to our founding members, long-time members, new members, and guests. Welcome to our national committee, which finishes its term this week. I want to thank our national committee members for their service to the party over this [...]

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TPID: From the US Pirate Party.  Visit the forums mentioned in the video.

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Ballot Access News: Foster’s Daily Democrat, in this article, suggests that Eliot Cutler may win the gubernatorial election in Maine this year. Cutler is an independent candidate who formerly worked for Senator Edmund Muskie as well as President Jimmy Carter. Foster’s Daily Democrat is actually a New Hampshire newspaper, but it also covers southern Maine. [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE MICHAEL CAVLAN PROUDLY ACCEPTS CINDY SHEEHAN ENDORSEMENT For Immediate Release: May 31, 2010 For Further Information: Dori Ullman (612) 414-9528 MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Michael Cavlan, independent candidate for House of Representatives in Minnesota’s 5th district has proudly accepted the endorsement of nationaly acclaimed “peace mom” Cindy Sheehan. Cindy Sheehan’s son, [...]

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Ballot Access News: Socialist Action has nominated a candidate for U.S. House in Connecticut’s First District, and is petitioning to place him on the ballot. He is Christopher Hutchinson. He needs almost 3,000 valid signatures by August 4. If he gets on the ballot, he will be the first Connecticut congressional candidate of a party [...]

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Ballot Access News: An earlier blog post provided a link to television ads by the Green Party, and also by the Peace & Freedom Party, against California’s Proposition 14. The national Libertarian Party web page has this link to enable anyone to hear the Libertarian Party’s radio ads against Proposition 14. The ads feature two [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Los Angeles Times has this op-ed, criticizing California’s Proposition 14, written by Mike Feinstein, Green Party leader and former Mayor of Santa Monica. This is not in the print version of the Los Angeles Times, but is on the web. This is the first content in that newspaper that is critical [...]

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