Posted by David Franke at LewRockwell.com blog: I don’t look at voting as a patriotic duty, or as having any intrinsic importance (there isn’t a worthless Fed note’s difference between the major parties). Rather, I look at it as a form of self-expression; whenever possible, you try to give a finger to the incumbent crooks. [...]

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Green Party 2010 Governor Candidate Howie Hawkins says the Green campaign continues. Lists upcoming projects such as: The Green New Deal, bringing American troops home, immigrant rights, protecting social security, curtailing climate change, and using the Stock Transfer Tax to make Wall Street pay its fair share.

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“Proposition 19, the California voter initiative to “legalize” marijuana, was doomed from the very beginning. The problem was polling, which was always weak. Despite plenty of theories by the Yes on 19 group on why polling was wrong or didn’t matter, it mattered.”

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Posted by Pete Healey at PRParty.org, in reference to the Democrats and Republicans: Most of us have one foot in the age that’s passing into history and one foot in the age that’s just being born. At the moment all we can do is stand and gape at those who fight each other across the [...]

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By AuMass at Gold Mass Group: CD-3 Patrick Barron got 4% in a 3-way CD-5 State Committee member Bob Clark got 1% in a four way. He faced among others a classic tea party opponent who advocated war with Mexico – ‘send the army to occupy Northern Mexico’. State Representative races State Committee member Jon [...]

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Libertarian election results for Georgia, along with larger party vote totals, found at Crazy for Liberty: 2010 Elections results from ajc.com and WSB-TV Agriculture Commissioner Candidate Votes Gary Black – R 1,396,050 56% J.B. Powell – D 996,077 40% Kevin Cherry – L 89,477 4% Updated Nov-03-2010 07:47 AM 100% reporting (2902 of 2902 precincts) [...]

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Press release from LPIN HQ emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Libertarian Party of Indiana Maintains Ballot Access for Four More Years The Libertarian Party of Indiana will maintain ballot access for four more years because of their achievement of six percent in the Secretary of State race. Libertarian Mike Wherry earned 100,847 votes which is the [...]

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H/T George Phillies; text version is at Gold America Group. The short version is that Rachel Hawkridge says she was unjustly purged from the Libertarian National Convention Oversight Committee. The attachment details her case for anyone who wants the long version: Convention Defense. Some prior discussion of this issue already took place in the election [...]

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Posted by eclecticvibe at Green Party Watch: Indiana Green Party Annual Congress Nov. 13, 2010, 11 am – 5 pm All Souls Unitarian Church 5805 East 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46226-1526 For More Info Call 317.370.7682 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              317.370.7682      end_of_the_skype_highlighting and leave a message for Jay Parks.

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The 2010 Green candidate for governor, who then dropped out to run for State Senate, sent the following email to the supporters of her Senate race (Williams received about 12 percent of the vote, which was actually less than the margin between the Democrat and the Republican): While I am disappointed in the results of [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Darryl W. Perry, Chair of the Boston Tea Party National Committee: Preliminary results show that over 1 million votes were casts for BTP endorsed candidates (1,129,631). While no BTP endorsed candidate won election Tuesday night, there were several good showings. Eighteen candidates received at least 20% (8) or 20,000 votes (13); [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: LIBERTARIANS CONTINUE TO GAIN GROUND IN OHIO Republicans won the 2010 mid-term elections based primarily on a huge resurgence of public interest in Libertarian platforms of smaller government involvement and common sense fiscal conservatism. While the tidal wave of Republican enthusiasm has swept the GOP back into power, they weren’t the only [...]

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From the Lone Star Report via TPID: It’s true that Texas Democrats did not file a candidate in the race for Comptroller, leaving only Republican incumbent Susan Combs versus two third-party candidates. But that doesn’t mean this race doesn’t represent a loss for Democrats (at least, in future elections). We previously reported that if the [...]

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According to the New York Times election results board, with 100% of precincts reporting, only 0.5% separates the Democratic and Republican candidates. Additional votes which may be counted, such as provisional ballots, make this race too close to call. Tom Horner of the Independence Party got 11.9% in this race, with several other candidates in [...]

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The Party for Socialism and Liberation analysis of the 2010 election results.

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From the Hugh Giordano campaign in Philadelphia (I volunteered for Hugh’s campaign, and he received about 18 percent of the vote, while winning a few precincts): To My Supporters,  I have sat back and thought about what to say, and all I can say is – Thank you! Thank you to all the thousands of [...]

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If you write for or read IPR and ran as a candidate in this past Tuesday’s election, please post your vote total and percentage in the comments here. If you feel like it, feel free to explain why you think you did better or worse than you expected, whether you plan to run again and [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Robb Tufts of the Maryland Green Party recently posted this on Green Party Watch: The Maryland Green Party has NOT lost its ballot line YET. We are still in the process of petitioning. We need to collect 10,000 valid signatures. We usually have a 70-80% validation rate and we [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: From the Oregon Pacific Green Party: The Pacific Green Party fall convention and annual gathering will be held November 6-7 at Camp Myrtlewood. We will be electing a new State Coordinating Committee member at this convention. Draft Agenda of November 2010 State Convention Pacific Green Party of Oregon 6/7 [...]

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Poli-Tea: Over the last few weeks, in opinion pieces for college and university newspapers across the country, students have stepped up their criticism of the reigning two-party state and duopoly system of government. AJ Warne writes for the Daily Athenaeum, out of West Virginia University, and argues that the “rise of a third (or fourth) [...]

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