Ballot Access News: According to an October 5 story in the Washington Times, Americans Elect’s super-PAC has spent $700,000 on independent expenditures recently to boost Angus King, the former independent Governor of Maine who is running for the U.S. Senate as an independent. The story also says that the donor to the Americans Elect super-PAC [...]

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Ballot Access News: According to the Americans Elect Mission Report, published this year, the organization spent $1,157,723 for ballot access in 2010, and $10,158,324 in 2011. Those total $11,316,047. The report does not have the 2012 figure. Americans Elect eventually qualified itself in 29 states. The last state in which it qualified was Oregon. It [...]

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Huffington Post Live has a debate on the economy featuring Gary Johnson, Rocky Anderson, and Reform Party candidate Andre Barnett (on the ballot in Florida). Unfortunately, I have not figured out how to embed it, although other IPR writers are welcome to update the post with the direct video if they can. Otherwise, just follow [...]

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Rocky Anderson has been nominated by the Independent Party of Connecticut for President. This party last nominated a presidential candidate in 2008, receiving over 1% of the votes for Ralph Nader, which helped them to retain their ballot access for 2012. The party apparently desired a nationwide candidate for president to be on their ballot [...]

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Historian and IPR contributor Darcy Richardson, who had sought the Reform Party USA presidential nomination, wrote the following about the party and his decision to not attend its National Convention this past weekend: I never really liked going to funerals, so I skipped the Philadelphia convention. For the record, I pulled out in late July, [...]

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This is already being discussed in the Reform Party thread below, but deserves it’s own post. The Reform Party held their Convention this past weekend in Philadelphia and nominated Andre Barnett for President.

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Bruuno reminds us that the Reform Party Convention is this weekend. It is in Philadelphia.

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As Richard Winger reports at Ballot Access News, the Michigan Natural Law Party, one of the remnants of the now defunct national Natural Law Party, has nominated Justice Party nominee, former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for president, giving him ballot access in the swing state of Michigan. In addition to Michigan, Anderson has [...]

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There is a picture up on Robby Wells’ Facebook page of him and Ron Paul. It appears to be at some sort of gathering and is reported to have taken place in Columbia, South Carolina. I did some sleuthing around the Internet and figured out the venue was this fundraiser for South Carolina State Senator Tom [...]

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This is a Facebook post today from Robby Wells. The “Mission Possible” Team is enroute to the pivotal meeting with Dr. Ron Paul! I don’t know any more details than that.

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Richard Winger has reported on the latest ballot access news out of Washington, which is that six presidential tickets have submitted signatures in the state of Washington, with four having been verified so far. The deadline has passed in Washington state for minor party presidential candidates, and independent presidential candidates, to submit petitions. Already confirmed [...]

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From an article posted on Ballot Access News, on July 12, 2012: Reportedly, national leaders of Americans Elect are planning to ask state officials to de-certify the party, in all the states in which the party is now ballot-qualified. However, there is no legal precedent that gives state or national party leaders the legal ability [...]

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