Story via The American Conservative. The originial story is from The Brad Blog. Regarding the dubious signatures, Gingrich has been quoted as saying, “we turned in 11,100 — we needed 10,000 — 1,500 of them were by one guy who, frankly, committed fraud.”

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Darcy Richardson is the author of a series of books about alternative parties called Others. He is the alternative party movement’s pre-eminent historian. However, he is also running in the Democratic primaries against incumbent President Barack Obama. Richardson is on the ballot in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana, and New Hampshire. Richardson has been involved in [...]

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I’m posting this because it is ballot access related. In Virginia it is even difficult to get on the GOP primary ballot. The Virginia Republican primary race is now a two-man competition between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, after all other GOP hopefuls failed to meet requirements to get on the state ballot. Read more… [...]

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From an e-mail from the Richardson campaign: We have some exciting news this morning! Presidential candidate Aldous Tyler of Wisconsin has announced as of today on Fire Dog Lake that he will be ending his bid for the Democratic nomination and is now endorsing Darcy Richardson. “I am officially endorsing Darcy Richardson for the Democratic [...]

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The following is an e-mail sent to IPR by Darcy Richardson*: FWIW, I qualified for the February 7th Democratic presidential primary in Missouri yesterday. An “illegal immigrant” — I detest that term — from Iowa traveled to Jefferson City to pick up my receipt for the qualifying fee from the Democratic State Committee’s headquarters and [...]

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Inspired by Ron Paul’s quote that “I always knew that if you were going to have a revolution you needed two things, young people and music”, some of the libertarian Republican presidential candidate’s supporters have launched a multi-city benefit tour featuring pro-freedom bands, musicians, rappers, and libertarian speakers. Zak Carter, the main promoter who has [...]

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For any of our readers who have not already noticed, the problem with IPR comments has been fixed. Please stop by and leave some on our other posts if you haven’t done so recently (or at all!)

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I went by the Occupy San Francisco camp outside the Federal Reserve building at 101 Market Street yesterday. This thing is really going strong. Although it was late at night, there were maybe 30-40 people camped there, many sleeping, some sitting around talking, etc. Lots of signs, fliers, books, materials, free food that supporters have [...]

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This isn’t exactly third party related, but since Ralph Nader is such a big part of the drive to recruit a primary challenger I figured it was worth posting and would be of interest to this site. There is a new article up at American Spectator that suggests that Obama won’t have a primary challenger. [...]

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[Editing note from Kimberly Wilder on 10/8/2011 - there is still no live video at the occupy nyc live stream that I had discovered below. I believe that that may be a fake lead planted in the press. In the least, there is controversy over its validity. There is Live Streaming by a group called [...]

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Since some of you have been writing us to wonder whether your comments are being taken down, I thought I would explain what is going on. IPR is currently using an automated spam filtering system known as akismet. This system works most of the time, but every once in a while it tags a legitimate [...]

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IPR’s twitter page is a listing of IPR stories that updates automatically, a short time after each story is posted. It can be set to deliver IPR headlines to your phone. I’m not sure whether our twitter feed should be used for additional purposes, and if so, which ones. Thoughts welcome in the comment section. [...]

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Ballot Access News: The National Popular Vote Plan organization is among the dozens of non-profit organizations whose funds may have been depleted by the apparent embezzlement of Kinde Durkee. See this story, which says that Durkee was accountant and treasurer for the organization. Most of the publicity about her has focused on the impact Durkee [...]

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From IPR’s twitter page: Text follow I_P_R to your carrier’s shortcode (40404 in the US, see the link twitter page linked above for other countries). IPR’s facebook group is now more conversational. While the ability to post and discuss other members’ comments was there all along, for several months it was mainly a twitter-like posting [...]

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Ballot Access News: Wired has this story about Righthaven, the company that contracted with various newspapers to seek out blogs that re-print newspaper stories in full, and then sue those blogs. For example, Righthaven sued Independent Political Report, and IPR had to pay several thousand dollars so that Righthaven would drop the lawsuit. As the [...]

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SPECIAL EVENT: Downtown Los Angeles, 05-28-11 ACTIVISM. MUSIC. PEOPLE. great speakers, local musicians, grassroots activism for liberty. ATT Tower Penthouse. 4pm-LATE. –Event Overview –Room 1, Speakers –Room 2, Music, Art, Entertainment –Dinner and Drinks –Location, Directions, Pictures –Tickets (FREE for students) –Schedule OVERVIEW The “peace president” bombs. The TSA gropes and scans. The drug war [...]

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After a 36-hour period of nonstop work by Jason “GE” Seagraves, IPR went live three years ago today, on May 20, 2008. Our predecessor site, Third Party Watch, operated between May 2005 and May 2008 before being purchased by Richard Viguerie right before the Libertarian presidential nomination in 2008, which led to the creation of [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oklahoma, known nationwide as the state with the least choice on its ballot, is now poised to make things even more difficult from an election standpoint. The legislature’s failure to coordinate also threatens another elections bill to help military voters, which is likely to be overturned as unconstitutional. HB1058, introduced earlier this [...]

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IPR went live 1,000 days ago, on May 20, 2008. Since that time we have had over 7,700 posts, over 118,000 user comments, over 1.5 million visits and over 4.3 million pageviews. V is for Valentines, but it’s also for Victory. And as the folks at PrisonPlanet remind us, resistance is in itself a form [...]

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I’ve recently added a plugin that provides icons that quickly take you to various social networks including facebook, twitter and others to share our stories. You can do this not just with the new stories that are being posted now, but with old stories all the way back to when the site started on May [...]

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