Ballot Access News: On November 2, David Maynard was elected to one of the seats on the Hillsborough County Soil and Water Conservation Board. He received 84,578 votes and won his 3-way race with 40.0% of the vote. He is a dues-paying member of the Socialist Party USA, although during the campaign he was, and [...]

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Brian Irving at Liberty Point: Mike Beitler may not have received as many votes as the polls indicated he would, but he said he’s pleased with the election results because of the campaign staff and organization he’s built. “I am ready to turn this all over to Mike Munger,” Beitler said, referring to the party’s [...]

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Ballot Access News: Greg Kaza has made an early compilation of the minor party vote for U.S. House in this week’s election. He finds that the Libertarian Party nominees for U.S. House have polled, together, more than 1,000,000 votes. This is the fifth election in a row at which the Libertarian Party has received more [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release For Further Information Contact: Doug Guetzloe (407) 312-1781 Tea Party (TEA) wins Federal Lawsuit over Tea Party Name. Plaintiffs Drop lawsuit in face of upcoming court trial. Tea Party to seek $200,000 in damages and court costs. Tea Party will determine who will be able to use [...]

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Austin Cassidy reports at Uncovered Politics that the New York Taxpayers Party will probably not qualify for a ballot line: In New York, which allows fusion, it seems that finding statewide results broken down by party is nearly impossible. The state’s Board of Elections certainly doesn’t do it. Their idea of election night reporting is [...]

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Darcy Richardson at Uncovered Politics: The Socialist Party’s Dan La Botz has surpassed the 25,000-vote mark in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race. With all but fourteen of Ohio’s 9,910 precincts reporting, the former history and Latin American studies professor and ex-journalist is unofficially garnering 25,311 votes. Read more…

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Compiled by Brent McMillan and posted at Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy: Wins (including ballot access) on Nov. 2, 2010 – Unofficial Results ARKANSAS Joy Ballard won her race for Saline County Collector, AR. She finished first of seven candidates for one seat with 19,131 votes, 69.28%. Partisan. CALIFORNIA Bruce Delgado won his re-election [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Goodwell, OK – Stephen Skacall, independent candidate for State Representative in the Oklahoma Panhandle, issued the following statement today following the results of today’s election: “I’d like to thank everyone who supported me over the past few months. Many people took the initiative to contribute financially to my campaign, as well as [...]

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Austin Cassidy reports at Uncovered Politics that Doug Hoffman got 6% as a Conservative Party candidate in NY-23, despite suspending his campaign before the election. Just as in the special election in 2009, Hoffman’s votes represented more than the margin of victory. Democrat Bill Owens won both elections. And, in the race for Suffolk County [...]

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Forwarded to IPR by Don Lake: Last night was a fantastic night for America. Record turnouts all over the country…a decided swing from the Progressive Democrats in the direction of the (mostly) Progressive Republicans. There were a few that made it in, though, that might not play ball…Rand Paul from Kentucky, just might not work [...]

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David Nolan at Libertarian Party blog: As Wes Benedict pointed out in a recent message, we had two U.S. Senate campaigns this year that were unusually successful, in terms of vote percentages. Rebecca Sink-Burris received 5.3% of the vote in Indiana, while yours truly got 4.7% in Arizona. This is the first time in ten [...]

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From the Libertarian Party blog analysis of the elections: Currently we have 15 Libertarians for U.S. House who received over 5% of the vote. (That only counts races where a Republican and a Democrat both appeared on the ballot.) That’s a big increase from past years. In 2008, three Libertarians for U.S. House got more [...]

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My co-blogger “Patroon” posted the following intriguing idea on “non-partisanship:” I registered my disappointment at the upcoming election in my last post  but starting this month I will be in the process of a little activism which I hope will improve our nation’s politics. I’m going to try and convince my county board to approve [...]

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According to Austin Cassidy at Uncovered Politics, independent candidate Tammy Roesch had over 18% of the vote in Ohio’s 99th State House district, with only a fraction of a point separating the Democratic and Republican candidates. As of the time that article was published, Democrat Deborah Newcomb was narrowly leading Republican Casey Kozlowski. Uncovered Politics [...]

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This note arrived in my in-box from independent write-in candidate for Senate in Arizona, Ian Gilyeat: Last night while watching the results come in across the networks, one of our new dear friends, said thank you for running the race.  It was a simple thank you – but an uncommon one.  An expression of gratitude [...]

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Early results posted by Austin Cassidy at Uncovered Politics See the article there for more about Kemp and her race. Butch Otter (REP) – 78,501 votes (62%) Keith Allred (DEM) – 39,296 votes (31%) Jana Kemp (IND) – 7,313 votes (6%) Ted Dunlap (LIB) – 1,514 votes (1%) Pro-Life (IND) – 953 votes (1%)

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Posted at kristindavis2010.com. Davis was the Anti-Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of New York. STATEMENT OF KRISTIN DAVIS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln Running for Governor of the state I love was a great experience. I met [...]

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Posted at peaceandfreedom.org: With at least two nominees for statewide office receiving more than the required 2% of the vote, the Peace and Freedom Party has secured its official status in California at least through November 2014. Early results show Dina Padilla at 3% for Insurance Commissioner, and Karen Martinez at 2.2% for Controller. These [...]

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News Advisory THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA www.cagreens.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 Contact: Laura Wells 510-504-4254 lwlaura@yahoo.com Derek Iverson 323.481.8984 diversen@cagreens.org Cres Vellucci 916.996.9170 cvellucci@cagreens.org GREEN PARTY POSTS KEY MAYORAL, LOCAL WINS; State and Congressional candidates also garner high vote totals, including more than 20% in South State race SACRAMENTO – The [...]

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Posted at Center for a Stateless Society by Tom Knapp. Knapp was formerly involved as a candidate for office and party officer in the Libertarian Party as well as the Boston Tea Party (the latter of which he founded). He has since disavowed electoral politics and is currently promoting the Ⓧ2012 project to organize deliberate [...]

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