Latest articles on Americans Elect since my last update: Ballot Access News: “Americans Elect did not exist in 2010, and now has 3,285 registrants, so it is the only nationally-organized party that now has more registrants than in 2010.” New Mexico Says Americans Elect Petition Has Enough Valid Signatures (this also qualifies them for 2014 [...]

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Ballot Access News reports that a US District Court decision has put the Green and Constitution parties on the Tennessee ballot. Both parties have in recent years collected thousands of signatures in that state, but failed to make the cutoff which was over 40,000 valid. The most recent Ballot Access News also reports that Americans [...]

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Jim Cook reports at Irregular Times With 77 days to go before the first ballot, the combination corporation/political party called Americans Elect opened up a system today for delegates to draft presidential candidates to appear in its proprietary, privatized online presidential nominating system. The official rules of Americans Elect create three standards by which a [...]

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On Philadelphia’s NPR station, WHYY, this morning, Daily Beast columnist, No Labels advocate, and former Bush Administration official Mark McKinnon advocated for a third party and electoral reform, specifically to the presidential selection process.  He particularly called for support of Americans Elect, while also calling more broadly for supporting third parties.  McKinnon discussed issues of [...]

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Ballot Access News: Americans Elect Starts Party Petition in Wisconsin Americans Elect Petition Approved in Maine Los Angeles County says that Americans Elect has 2,857 registered voters. Orange County, the second most populous county, has 226 Americans Elect registrants. Santa Clara, the most populous county in northern California, says it has zero Americans Elect registrants [...]

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Daniel Imperato, who unsuccessfully sought the 2008 Presidential nomination of the Libertarian, Reform, Green and Constitution Parties, and ran as independent for Governor of Florida in 2010, has been accused by the US Government’s Securities and Exchange Commission of bilking gullible investors out of about $2.5 million US: A West Palm Beach businessman defrauded investors [...]

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Ballot Access News reports that On January 19, the California Senate unanimously passed AB 1413, which, among other things, eliminates write-in space from November ballots for Congress and partisan state office. The bill now goes to the Assembly, because when it passed the Assembly last year, it didn’t have the same provisions. Meanwhile, another article [...]

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H/T Ballot Access News and Green Party Watch: Arkansas Greens have been certified for the ballot as a party, with 14,000 signatures submitted to cover a 10,000 signature requirement. Arkansas Greens were also on the ballot in 2006, 2008 and 2010. During those years Arkansas Greens elected a state legislator and received over 20% for [...]

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Robby Wells is a former college football coach and now a presidential candidate seeking the nomination of the Constitution Party. It is that latter job title that has gotten him this piece of press. Most people in the Palmetto State know Robby Wells as the former assistant football coach at the University of South Carolina [...]

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The Reform Party has been on the wane in recent years, with state parties slowly disappearing. However, this article highlights the efforts of some activists to revive the Reform Party of Utah. “When Ross Perot ran in 1992, there were two states that he came in second in the polls,” said state party organizer Jaime [...]

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The Reform Party website currently displays the following message: Thank you for your support. We are joining with others in this blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA as a potential infringement on the rights of all Americans. The Reform Party is dedicated to upholding the Constitution and is participating in a one day Internet Blackout [...]

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Public Policy Polling has the following results in their first national poll of 2012: Ron Paul matches Romney’s performance against Obama, also trailing by 5 points at 47-42. Beyond those two Newt Gingrich trails by 7 at 49-42, Rick Santorum has an 8 point deficit at 50-42, and Rick Perry trails by 11 points at [...]

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Former Savannah State football coach Robby Wells has dropped out of the race for the Reform Party’s presidential nomination to seek the Constitution Party nod.  This comes after Wells’s campaign manager sent out a cryptic message last Thursday announcing that Wells would “join a party” on January 16. The latest message from the campaign, sent out [...]

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Americans Elect promises that all voters who sign up online as delegates can select a Presidential ticket. What sort of ticket might such voters want? Currently, the people who have signed up at Americans Elect thus far have chosen to “track” several politicians, which does not necessarily mean that they will support them for that [...]

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I was forwarded the following e-mail from Richardo Davis, the Chairman of the Constitution Party of Georgia. Subject: PRESS ADVISORY: THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, ROBBY WELLS, WILL HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE IN COLUMBIA, SC ON JANUARY 16, 2012 ANNOUNCING THAT HE IS JOINING A PARTY. Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:53:52 -0500 From: robby@electrobbywells.com To: info@electrobbywells.com [...]

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Former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer, a Republican Party presidential candidate that is also seeking the presidential nomination of Americans Elect, sent out a message to supporters reporting fundraising totals of $32,000 for the week, a record amount for the campaign. Below is the text of the message: Friends, What a week!  I wanted to take [...]

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The Michael Cavlan for US Senate campaign has just released their first campaign commercial. The commercial is available on youtube. No plans for broadcast TV ad buys were mentioned. Cavlan is running for US Senate 2012 in Minnesota on the Minnesota Open Progressive ticket. His opponent will be Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat. The Minnesota GOP [...]

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Laurence Kotlikoff is an Economics professor at Boston University, but he is now also a third party presidential candidate. Kotlikoff announced that he intends to seek the nomination of the Americans Elect party. “I think I may be the first economist to run for president,” Kotlikoff said. “We see economists now running Greece and Italy. [...]

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Frank McEnulty announced via e-mail that he will not run for president in 2012 despite speculation that he would seek the Reform Party presidential nomination. During the 2008 election, McEnulty was both the presidential nominee of the New American Independent Party and the Vice-presidential nominee of the Reform Party as the running mate of the late [...]

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From the Louisville Courier-Journal: Gatewood Galbraith, a perennial candidate for public office who advocated the legalization of marijuana and was one of the most colorful characters on Kentucky’s political landscape for three decades, died at his home in Lexington, the Fayette County coroner’s office said Wednesday. He was 64. The cause of death was listed [...]

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