The Justice Party is the new party formed by former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. Today Rocky Anderson and other prominent members held a press conference to announce the formation of the party. It was, as the linked article states, sparsely attended by around 30 people and little to no media. The party also [...]

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Richard Winger has a report about Americans Elect and an interview their CEO Peter Ackerman gave to radio talk show host Frank Morano. Winger correctly points out the most interesting part of the interview concerns Americans Elect’s future plans for elections. Perhaps Ackerman’s most interesting comment is his statement that in 2014, Americans Elect will [...]

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Former New Mexico Governor and current GOP Presidential candidate Gary Johnson was interviewed recently by AllVoices.com. During the course of the internet, Governor Johnson hinted at where his candidacy might be headed in the coming weeks. Johnson, who has been excluded from 14 of the 16 Republican debates by what can only be described as “Catch-22” [...]

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According to a recent press release, Christina Tobin will be managing the campaign of Dan O’Connor in New York’s 12 congressional district. O’Connor is challenging incumbent Nydia Velazquez in the Democratic Party primary. Tobin has a long history of work on ballot access and election reform issues and founded the Free and Equal Elections Foundation [...]

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The Working Families Party is a labor-based party in New York that gave Governor Andrew Cuomo its ballot line in 2010. In New York one candidate can be listed multiple times if the candidate wins more than one party’s nomination. Cuomo is now reportedly considering establishing new taxes in order to boost state revenue. “I [...]

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Laurie Roth is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host based out of Washington. Roth’s talk show is reflective of her own conservative beliefs. Ms. Roth has, in the past, been active at the local level in the GOP, but has now announced a run for President in which she will seek the ballot-lines of [...]

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Former Libertarian Party presidential candidate and constitutional scholar Michael Badnarik has announced an endorsement of an independent candidate for Congress in Colorado. His endorsement reads as follows: Like so many Americans, I have come to distrust my government, and I have grown cynical about the election process.  My campaigns for President and for Congress made [...]

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Nevada’s most recent voter registration statistics were posted in October of 2011. Green Party: 3,033 (0.27%) Independent American Party: 51,535 (4.55%) Libertarian Party: 7,111 (0.63%) Non-Partisan: 181,960 (16.05%) Other: 3,945 (0.35%)   California’s most recent voter registration statistics are from February 2011. American Independent Party: 417,567 (2.43%) Green Party: 113,118 (0.66%) Libertarian Party: 92,246 (0.54%) [...]

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Darcy Richardson, who has commented here at IPR for a long time and was once a contributor to IPR, is running a primary challenge in the Democratic Party against incumbent President Barack Obama. Mr. Richardson is now on the ballot in four states–Oklahoma, Louisiana, Missouri, and New Hampshire. Additionally, Darcy Richardson is hoping to get [...]

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The Libertarian National Committee is meeting in Las Vegas, NV this weekend (12/10/2011 – 12/11/2011). Saturday night a fundraiser was held 7-00 pm PST to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Libertarian Party and benefit the LP building fund. David Blau is trying to setup a live video feed of the LNC meeting, but he [...]

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A growing consensus is forming among economists and criminologists that drug prohibition, rather than drug use itself, is a leading cause of violence and property crime, resulting in urban decay and losses to real estate values.   Following are thirteen ways that various forms of drug legalization could improve retail, housing, and agricultural real estate [...]

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“Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.” – Jose Marti  by R. Lee Wrights  BURNET, Texas (Dec. 10) – Politicians are very adept about making excuses for their failures. The greater the failure, the bigger, more [...]

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Over at Ballot Access News, Richard Winger reports that the Country Party has filed their petition to be on the ballot. This is a party that is not putting forth any presidential candidate. On December 6, the Country Party submitted 6,387 signatures to the Wyoming Secretary of State, on its petition to be a qualified [...]

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The Peace and Freedom Party has been a ballot-qualified third party in California since 1968 (with a brief exception from 1999-2003). The party has, for a few decades, existed almost solely within the borders of California. However, when the party first began it was national in scope, though never more powerful anywhere else than in [...]

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Bob Kiss is the outgoing Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and one of the most well-known elected officials and members of the Progressive Party of Vermont. Kiss is reportedly not going to seek another term as Mayor of Burlington according to this article: Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss will not seek re-election to a third term.The progressive [...]

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Corporate personhood is an issue that is not much discussed at major party debates and does not present itself in the platforms of either the Republicans or Democrats. However, amongst many third party activists and candidates, corporate personhood is a headlining issue. This article highlights how the issue has become an important one in Vermont [...]

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The Hill, a popular periodical covering Washington D.C. politics, recently published an extended profile of Jill Stein. The article covers a number of topics, including Occupy Wallstreet, her “Green New Deal”, and students as a reliable voter base for her campaign. If Green Party political veteran Jill Stein were to visit Occupy Boston several times, [...]

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Over at GreenPartyWatch, Brent McMillan has compiled an officeholder summary for the party in 2011 and an election wrap up by the numbers. While this might be a little late, I have not seen such a comprehensive list anywhere else. 104 green party candidates ran for election in 2011. By comparison 150 green party candidates [...]

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Lincoln Chafee is the Independent Governor of Rhode Island and has been at the center of a controversy this past week because of the label he applied to that holiday tradition known as the “Christmas Tree”. A beaming Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee calmly weathered a cross-country Christmas controversy yesterday, standing by his PC pronouncement [...]

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Per The Florida Indpendent: The Libertarian Party of Florida will host a campaign stop for Republican presidential hopeful Gary Johnson. The partnership is leading many to speculate that Johnson, a two-term New Mexico governor, may drop out of the GOP to run as a Libertarian. Florida Libertarians, for their part, say they would welcome the [...]

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