From Ballot Access News, June 14, 2013: Kansas Secretary of State Re-Interprets Law to Make it More Difficult for a Party to Remain on the Ballot; Removes Reform Party Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach recently re-interpreted Kansas election law section 25-302b, the law that determines how a party remains on the ballot. That law, [...]
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Kansas Secretary of State Makes it More Difficult for a Party to Remain on the Ballot; Removes Reform Party
June 17th, 2013 · 7 Comments
Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties · Third parties, general
North Carolina Bill to Abolish State Income Tax Check-off for Political Parties Moves Ahead
June 17th, 2013 · 1 Comment
From Ballot Access News, June 15th: On June 12, North Carolina HB 951 passed the House Finance Committee. It repeals the state income tax form check-off that asks taxpayers if they wish to send a small donation to their favorite political party. In recent years a surprisingly large number of taxpayers have chosen to send [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party · Third parties, general
Free & Equal: The Thrive Movement supports United We Stand Festival
June 14th, 2013 · No Comments
Posted on Free and Equal Elections Foundation’s website on June 12th: Free & Equal is pleased to announce that Foster and Kimberly Gamble, creators of “THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take?” will be speaking at the United We Stand Festival in Los Angeles scheduled to take place in October on the UCLA campus. One of [...]
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
NSA whistleblower voted third party, donated to Ron Paul
June 12th, 2013 · 2 Comments
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in the Guardian: Q: When did you decide to leak the documents? A: “You see things that may be disturbing. When you see everything you realise that some of these things are abusive. The awareness of wrong-doing builds up. There was not one morning when I woke up [and decided this [...]
Tags: Third parties, general
New York Governor Asks Legislature to Lower Number of Signatures for Statewide and Legislative Candidates
June 12th, 2013 · No Comments
Ballot Access News: On June 11, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo presented several election law proposals to the legislature. Here is a copy of his Draft Proposal #5, which would lower the number of signatures for statewide office (both for primary ballot access and general election access) from 15,000 signatures to 10,000. The proposal also [...]
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
Special U.S. House Election in Alabama Will Require 5,938 Valid Signatures
June 10th, 2013 · 6 Comments
Ballot Access News: Alabama will hold a special election for U.S. House, First District, in late 2013. Congressman Jo Bonner says he will resign from Congress in August 2013, so the state hasn’t formally set the special election yet. However, it is already known that any independent candidate, or any nominee of a party other [...]
Tags: Constitution Party · Independents · Third parties, general
Update On Free and Equal’s United We Stand Fest
June 10th, 2013 · 4 Comments
Published on the Independent American & Constitutional Review (IA&CR) on June 10th: Free and Equal’s United We Stand Fest New Information by Joshua Fauver (This information was recently release on the Free and Equal Election Foundation’s Facebook fan page by their Executive Producer Marci Forgave.) The United We Stand Festival, hosted by Free & Equal [...]
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Free & Equal: United We Stand Festival Expanding, Changing Venue
June 8th, 2013 · 4 Comments
Press Release June 8, 2013 Mega stars being added to perform and speak at The United We Stand Festival! Several sincere and independent high profile people are working with us on their schedules so they too may join the platform to AWAKE the sleeping NATION. As you know, the planning of UWS has been the [...]
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Functional Fillmore Frugal: Our Movement Starts Now, part one
June 8th, 2013 · 26 Comments
Concerned Citizens, Functional Fillmore Frugal Our Movement Starts Now…. The following is Part I of the four part treatise of the Functional Fillmore Frugal Movement (FFFM) I. FUNCTIONAL Stereotype During a walk in the park, I encountered a hobo named Bob. Bob appeared to be in his mid to late-50s and wore an unkempt grey [...]
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Minor Party Candidates to Participate In NYC Mayoral Debate June 2nd
May 30th, 2013 · 2 Comments
The following is a May 30th email sent out by Carl Person, the Reform Party’s candidate for mayor of New York City in the November 2013 elections. Person was previously involved with the Libertarian Party, running as its candidate for Attorney General of New York in 2010, earning 36,488 votes, 0r 0.48%. He ran for [...]
Tags: Green Party · Independents · Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties · Third parties, general
Free and Equal: Gary Johnson, Jill Stein Join Jesse Ventura for the United We Stand Festival
May 29th, 2013 · No Comments
Gary Johnson, Jill Stein Join Jesse Ventura for the United We Stand Festival For Immediate Release Libertarians, Greens, Republicans, Democrats, Occupy, Tea Party Independents Join To Break The Two-Party System LITTLE ROCK, ARK. - The Free & Equal Elections Foundation has announced that Gary Johnson (via social media) and Jill Stein have confirmed to speak at the United We Stand Festival. [...]
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May Edition of Ballot Access News Released Online
May 29th, 2013 · No Comments
Ballot Access News is a monthly hard copy newsletter published by ballot access expert Richard Winger as well as a website updated daily. Yesterday, the May 2013 edition was released online: http://www.ballot-access.org/may-2013-ballot-access-news-print-edition/
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
