Posted to IPR by Paulie
ballot-access.org/2009/01/07/deadlines-for-introducing-bills-are-rapidly-approaching/:

Many state legislatures have rigid deadlines for introducing bills. Those deadlines were in December 2008 in Indiana, Iowa, and Oklahoma. A previous post had said that the Indiana deadline was in mid-January, but actually it was on December 15. Therefore, it is already too late to introduce a ballot access improvement [...]

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Found at The Hankster. Excerpt:
Understanding how America has changed entails understanding how the independent movement has changed. To do that, you have to look at the new concepts of independent politics and how they were engineered and developed in and by the CUIP networks. The “centrist” model was discarded early on in favor of a [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News
Professor James T. Bennett has just published “Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties.” The publisher is the prestigious Springer Company, which is the world’s largest publisher of books on science, technology and medicine. Springer has published over 150 Nobel prize-winners. Professor [...]

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Posted at Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude

New Yorkers Urge Gov. Paterson to Appoint Ralph Nader to US Senate
A group of concerned New York citizens announced today that they are launching a campaign to have Governor David A. Paterson appoint long-time consumer advocate Ralph Nader to the US Senate. There are no [...]

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From the recent national elections. Unlike the Commission on Presidential Debates in the United States, it appears that Canadians do not find national general elections debates with five candidates to be overwhelmingly confusing.

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A newsletter, posted below, from the National Popular Vote organization summarizes the situation in Michigan and gives some background information (albeit very favorably biased background information) about the National Popular Vote Plan. In case you’re wondering, this could potentially have a positive effect on third parties because it would eliminate the obstacle of one [...]

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Posted at Knappster by Tom Knapp. Tom Knapp is a declared candidate for the 2012 Libertarian and Boston Tea Party presidential nominations, was a 2008 Libertarian congressional candidate and Boston Tea Party VP candidate, and has been a Libertarian Party candidate on several other occasions. He is also, as far as I know, still signed [...]

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From Ballot Access News

On December 23, West Virginia released its write-in totals from last month’s election. None of the qualified write-in candidates for president in West Virginia were on the ballot in any state, except for Donald K. Allen (who was only on in Colorado). Allen got 4 write-ins in West Virginia. Bob Barr was [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News

If you are concerned about Indiana ballot access, it is important to know that bills must be introduced only four session days after the legislature convenes on January 7.
Indiana ballot access is among the worst in the nation. For the last three presidential elections, the presidential candidate who placed third nationally [...]

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From Ballot Access News:

The Pennsylvania state elections office has released partial write-in totals from the November 2008 presidential election. The state office only tabulated write-ins for Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, and Chuck Baldwin. Clinton received 4,724; Paul 3,527; Baldwin 986; others 8,180.
Only 49 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties reported any write-ins, which means the other 18 [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at GPW:
YouTube and other online video sites have made releasing promotional videos for causes or candidates or parties a piece of cake. A number of people noted that Ralph Nader’s campaign was exceptional in the use of YouTube videos to promote his campaign. Many videos were put out over the last [...]

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From Ballot Access News
The Ohio legislature elected in 2006 is still in session, but it expects to adjourn on Thursday, December 18. A few days ago it passed an election law bill, SB 380, which relates to early voting. However, no legislator introduced any bill to replace the old, void ballot access procedures for [...]

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Ballot Access News reports:
Pennsylvania has 67 counties. In Pennsylvania, all write-ins are legal (there is no procedure for write-in candidates to file in advance) and under the law, all should be tallied. However, once more, 17 counties have failed to include any write-ins from last month’s election, including the populous counties Cumberland, Lehigh, Luzerne, Montgomery, [...]

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The one election is recent history in which the spoiler effect played the most major role - or at least it is perceived that way by many - was the 2000 presidential election. In case you live under a rock, Al Gore lost Florida to George Bush by about 500 votes and that caused [...]

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Ballot Access News reports official returns in the 11 states that held Gubernatorial elections last month reveal these national totals. It appears that among alternative parties, the Libertarians were the clear winners:

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