Ballot Access News:
Petitioning at the polls is an excellent technique for any group that is trying to get signatures on petitions. Virtually everyone at that location is a registered voter. The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to hear a case involving petitioning at the polls, Citizens for Police Accountability Political Committee v Browning, 09-861.
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At Kn@ppster, IPR co-founder Tom Knapp writes about the events that led to the founding of IPR and some of the impact [...]

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From Raw Story:
The largest gay-rights advocacy group in New Jersey has announced it will no longer give money to the Democratic Party.The move follows the state legislature’s failure last month to legalize gay marriage and amid growing signs that the effort to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is already faltering.
“No political party has a record [...]

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The Massachusetts special election for US Senate, won by Scott Brown, was said to have been the result of angry independents expressing their political will. But is this cliche true in this case?
Registered independents in Massachusetts have outnumbered the registered Democrats (or Republicans) in the state since February of 1990. While some 2.1 million independent [...]

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Michael Badnarik suffered from a serious heart attack only a couple of weeks ago and now The Free And Equal Elections Foundation has taken it upon themselves to raise money to cover Badnarik’s hospital bills at a website called Hearts of Liberty.
Michael has been released from the hospital and is in recovery. We are hoping [...]

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The Michigan Policy Network interviews Stephen Tash, chair of the Detroit Socialist Party, editor of the Michigan Socialist and a member of the SPUSA’s National Committee:

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At the Columbia Chronicle, a student newspaper out of Columbia College Chicago, Patrick Smith reports on the spectrum of third party and independent candidates for governor in Illinois in 2010, including independent Michael White and Libertarian Lex Green:

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H/T to d.eris on this one.  The Burlington Free Press reports that there might be yet another progressive third party in Vermont.  Read the full story here.
Brush said he didn’t expect the party to run candidates, at least not many in the next election. Rather the party would look over candidates from Vermont’s other parties [...]

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Today Mike Gravel posted a video to Youtube promoting a November 10th money bomb to fund a documentary about The National Initiative for Democracy, a plan for national ballot initiatives.  A few days ago, a kind of teaser trailer was also posted on Mike Gravel’s Youtube channel.  Both are below, along with a transcript from [...]

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This afternoon, there were two attempts in the Senate Finance Committee to repair some of the damage done to health care reform by Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat who has received a great deal of campaign finance from executives in the medical industry, and has accordingly crafted health care legislation designed in order to protect [...]

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A SurveyUSA poll on the all-party primary for the special election in California’s 10th U.S. House District finds several alternative party candidates and write-in candidates, along with minor Democratic and Republican contenders, polling a combined four percent. However, the poll did not initially list the candidates, and the results posted online do not break [...]

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Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist James Lileks writes, “Jesse Ventura will have a new cable TV show about conspiracies. Or so they’d like to you believe.” The truTV network announced that “Conspiracy Theory” will debut this fall. In a news release, the cable channel said, “Jesse Ventura, a man who has lived a [...]

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Austin Petersen, the Libertarian Party’s Director of Outreach and Affiliate Relations, is leaving the LP on August 19th, to take a position with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.

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From Ballot Access News…
On July 4, Chelene Nightingale announced her candidacy for Governor of California in the American Independent Party primary. She is an activist on the issue of stopping aliens from entering the United States illegally. Here is her webpage. If she becomes the California AIP’s nominee, she will be its first female gubernatorial [...]

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