Even though Green Party candidate for governor Rich Whitney got over 10 percent of the vote in the 2006 gubernatorial race, for some reason Rasmussen has left him – and other third party candidates – out of a recently released poll.  Still, without any third party candidate mentioned by name, the “other” category was chosen [...]

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From Ballot Access News:

The Oklahoman for March 13 has two letters to the editor, advocating that the legislature pass HB 1072, the ballot access bill. See them at this link. Thanks to Micah Gamino for the link.
One of the letters:
Regarding “Access endeavor” (ScissorTales, March 6): It’s not entirely accurate that Oklahoma’s lawmakers have made [...]

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Ballot Access News
The web page “Join California” has made a strenuous effort to learn how many candidates filed for partisan office in the June 8, 2010 California primaries. This information is not official. Each candidate files in his or her own home county, so “Join California” had to contact each of the 58 counties to [...]

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Posted at Poli-Tea:
Former governor Jesse Ventura has been making the rounds on the various talk shows, promoting his new book. On Fox & Friends, the one-time pro-wrestler did not shy away from expressing his views on the Democratic-Republican two-party state. Transcribed from the video below:
Ventura: I’m concerned over these two parties because [...]

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Tomorrow, the newly formed Coffee Party organization will be holding meet-up style events across the country.  There’s probably one near you.  This could be a good outreach and organizing opportunity for third party and independent activists.  From the Coffee Party’s mission statement:
The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in [...]

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If you’re in California, check out ballot access reform advocate and Libertarian candidate for California Secretary of State Christina Tobin’s newly announced schedule (Tobin is also getting help from some of the more prominent and respected ballot access reform advocates in the nation, like Richard Winger and Ralph Nader):
Christina Tobin Announces Schedule of Speaking Events [...]

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Yahoo News/Sports Front Page Story on Oregon’s Libertarian Candidate for US Senate, Marc Delphine

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In an email to supporters today, the ballot access reform organization Free and Equal is asking people to contact Oklahoma state legislators and urge them to pass a ballot access reform bill.  The email:
Oklahoma’s largest newspaper, The Oklahoman, mentioned Free & Equal in an editorial titled “Access endeavor” on March 6. The daily paper claimed [...]

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An interesting article from Ballot Access News:

The election for California Secretary of State has three well-known election law activists this year, although the type of election law activism each has engaged in are very different from each other.
Christina Tobin is the only candidate seeking the Libertarian Party nomination. Here is her web page. She [...]

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Posted by Kris Broughton at bigthink.com:
In the last twelve months we’ve seen two new political organizations hit the nationwide scene with an intensity and a geographic presence unheard of since the sixties. Unlike the Libertarian Party, which grew through more traditional methods during the seventies and eighties, the memberships in the Tea Party and the [...]

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Independent and third party activists find themselves on opposite sides of the debate over California’s Top Two Primaries Act. Ballotpedia describes the proposition thusly:
The California Top Two Primaries Act ballot proposition is on the June 8, 2010 ballot in California as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment. If approved by voters, the proposal will require that [...]

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A group calling itself the Coffee Party has begun to make waves in the political blogopshere following an article on the new organization published in the Washington Post yesterday.  Independent progressive blogger Liberal Arts Dude looked into the group and has written up a post describing the organization and its aims, its relation to the [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
The Free & Equal Elections Foundation has made a financial commitment to a lobbying effort in Oklahoma aimed at easing the nation’s highest petition requirement for unqualified political parties.
The foundation has given an initial grant to Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform (OBAR) a coalition of the state’s third parties to help fund [...]

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Posted at Poli-Tea:
At the Times Daily, out of Alabama it seems, columnist Mike Goens argues that, given the structure of the two-party state and the dictatorial character of Democratic-Republican politics, third party and independent political activism may well provide the only means of arriving at real solutions to the many political problems facing the people [...]

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Placed literally in the middle of an op-ed piece by Senator Evan Bayh about why he is leaving the Senate, the New York Times today ran a piece by former Senator and current independent candidate for Rhode Island governor addressing the topic of a new third party emerging.  Chafee speculates on Bayh running for president [...]

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