Source: Free State Project (from e-mail sent March 5) The FSP runs entirely on generous donations from people like you. Please give today! Your financial contribution goes directly toward achieving our goal of Liberty in Our Lifetime. Your support will help us: Increase our advertising efforts (e.g. Peter Schiff radio show costs $3,500 for 3 [...]

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This email from Garland Favorito of VoterGA is packed with information. It includes a mention of the Macon Telegraph article that we posted below, updates on legislation to decrease Georgia’s signature requirements and information on the persecution of a sitting independent Georgia legislator. VoterGa Supporters, Here are some significant updates on the legislative front: First, [...]

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Paul Gottfried, a prominent and ridiculously prolific paleoconservative, (search his name at Amazon and see what I mean) encourages Ron Paul to run third party in his latest essay. The essay addresses Romney, Santorum and Paul. Below is the relevant part about a Paul third party run: The only way Ron Paul can have any [...]

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The Macon Telegraph ran an article today discussing efforts in the Georgia Legislature to decrease the state’s onerous ballot access requirements. The article is actually not bad and quotes Richard Winger and Garland Favorito, both known to this site. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like any legislation to decrease the petition requirements will pass this year.

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Dr. J. David Gillespie is a political science professor at the College of Charleston and the Citadel. He has written a number of articles on third parties and independent candidates over the years, including a new book entitled “Challengers to Duopoly: Why Third Parties Matter in American Two-Party Politics“. The book, published the University of [...]

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From the campaign press release: “Tomorrow, I will formally end my bid for the GOP nomination for President of the United States. As the GOP and the networks host debate number twenty-something this evening, they have once again turned their backs on the democratic process by choosing to exclude a former Governor and Congressman. I [...]

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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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From Politico. The Washington Post has the original story. More than two-thirds of Americans would consider voting for a third-party presidential candidate, while nearly half of all voters think a third-party is needed, a new poll shows… The most likely to support the creation a third party? A majority of independents (61 percent), liberals (60 percent) [...]

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Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, went black on Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).  This was an attempt to show what might happen if Congress passes the bill that gives the U.S. Department of Justice broad powers to police the internet in the name of intellectual property protection. Millions of people use Wikipedia [...]

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Steven Higgs, the editor of the Bloomington Alternative, takes a critical look at the media’s lack of coverage of third party candidates, in light of a panel on Al Jazeera.  Here is the video on Al Jazeera and here is the full article.  One of the more interesting aspects of the panel, which Higgs focuses [...]

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The News Star in Louisiana recently did a report on the registrants by party in Louisiana. The results were fascinating, turning up a total of 217 parties, 86 of which have only 1 member. Twelve of those registrants are members of the Jedi Party. The state has a bunch of Bananas — well, 20 of [...]

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Paul Craig Roberts has a new column out on the potential war with Iran. In it he suggests voting for Ron Paul or “for a more extreme third party candidate.” Where do we go from here? If not to nuclear destruction, Americans must wake up. Football games, porn, and shopping malls are one thing. Survival [...]

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Pat Buchanan has a new column out addressing the Ron Paul campaign. In it he addresses a potential Ron Paul third party run. There is a gnawing fear in the GOP that Paul will quit the party when the primaries are over and run as a third-party candidate on the Libertarian or some other line in [...]

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Should Ron Paul choose to run a third party presidential campaign, radio talk show host Mark Levin has said that he will punish the elder by using his energies to unseat the younger Paul. “If Ron Paul decides that he is going to go third-party, which is detrimental to this nation, and pulls a million [...]

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Cowboybyte.com has the story: Donald Trump supporters have met an official ballot deadline in Texas, paving the way for the business mogul to become a third-party candidate there, a source close to Trump tells The Blaze. Trump himself acknowledged the filing in a statement. Read more… Here is the original The Blaze story to which [...]

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LENOIR, (Dec. 26) – Two of the major Republican presidential hopefuls are learning what third party and independent candidates have known for years, that ballot access laws in most states are rigged against offering voters any real choices in primaries and on election day, said Jordon Greene, president of Free the Vote North Carolina in [...]

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Every week the New York Times prints one letter under the heading “Invitation to a Dialogue,” and then prints responses to it in the Sunday paper.  This week, the letter is calling for a “centrist” third party in America.  Any interested readers should write in to the Times. A centrist third party could prosper in [...]

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Submitted by Marc Montoni to Independent Political Report and posted at Free Virgina: Last Friday afternoon, December 23, 2011, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry were notified that they had not turned in enough valid signatures to qualify their names for Virginia’s Republican primary ballot. Predictably, this has caused feathers to fly, complete with threats of [...]

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The Washington Post-ABC News general election poll just came out and there were two scenarios under which Ron Paul was polled as a third party candidate. The first, a general election match-up between Paul, Gingrich, and Obama has Paul at 21%. The second, including a general election match-up between Paul, Romney, and Obama, also has [...]

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Darcy Richardson is the author of a series of books about Third Parties called The Others. He is the third party movement’s pre-eminent historian. However, he is also running in the Democratic primaries against incumbent President Barack Obama. Richard Winger reports that Darcy Richardson has made the ballot in Texas too. Three candidates have paid [...]

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