Yes, that time has come dear readers. Over the past year, this blog has grown into the number one resource on the Internet for third party and independent candidate news. It has also become a hub for third party activists and independently minded voters.
We have generated some 3300+ blog posts and 50,000 comments under [...]

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In New York, a candidate for Mayor of Buffalo is endorsed by the Working Families Party. And, a candidate for Westchester County Executive will receive the Conservative Party line.

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As of this writing, IPR has 50,173 approved comments and 3,372 posts over the course of a year plus about two weeks. We are continuing to log well over 1,000 unique visitors per day. All together, we have had 673 thousand visits and over 1.943 million pageviews.
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Wayne Root is currently a guest on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s internet TV show run by Fox called FreedomWatch. Root was the Libertarian Party’s 2008 Vice Presidential candidate and is now a candidate for the Presidential nomination in 2012. Root is an in-studio guest along with financial guru Peter Schiff. I will post a video later, [...]

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For weeks now Rand Paul has been considering a run for US Senate in Kentucky, anticipating that Sen. Bunning will retire. This week he let it be known that he would be making a major announcement on national television, on the Rachel Maddow show on Thursday. Now, a mere one hour before the show, I [...]

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By request of Christina Tobin and reposted from Ballot Access News:
Free & Equal, an organization formed early this year by Christina Tobin, has made a very generous donation of $1,850 to OBAR, Oklahoma Ballot Access Reform. The money will be used to help pay for the professional lobbyist who is working for ballot access reform.
You [...]

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As reported in the NY Times, sources have said that Justice David H. Souter has indicated he plans to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of term in June. Also, comments by ballot access expert Richard Winger on Souter’s career.

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Richard Winger has posted on his blog, Ballot-Access.org, that Texas Congressman and former Libertarian Presidential candidate Ron Paul has donated $500 to COFOE, the Coalition for Free and Open Election. This is the single largest donation ever given to the organization, which has lobbied, litigated, and advanced better ballot access laws for the past twenty-four [...]

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On April 23, the New York State Senate is holding a hearing in Buffalo to hear Law Professor James Gardner make the case for many election law reforms.

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Today at 1 PM EST, I (Ross Levin) will be interviewing Reverend Billy, who is running for mayor of New York City as a green, on our brand new blogtalkradio channel.  Feel free to listen over your computer or by phone or right here!

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Stephen Colbert is a comedian and satirist who made an early bid for President in the 2008 election. Even though Colbert won in a landslide NASA’s online poll to name a space station room, NASA invoked its powers under the contest rules to choose a different name than the one democratically chosen. Though, as a consolation prize, a treadmill that astronauts will use was named after Colbert.

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After the 2010 census has been held, the number of seats held by each state in the U.S. House of Representatives will change. The National Conference of State Legislatures recently estimated what the 2010 reapportionment will mean for each state.

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Posted at LP blog by Donny Ferguson. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

In his weekly Atlanta Journal-Constitution column, 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Congressman Bob Barr takes the Obama administration to task for its innovation-killing government takeover of General Motors.
You may read the entire column by clicking here, or at http://www.BobBarr.org.
Ronald Reagan once quipped —- [...]

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In the end, Green Party candidate Matt Reichel received 6.59% of the vote, in the election for Rahm Emanuel’s vacanted 5th District Congressional seat. The winner was Democrat Mike Quigley, who won in a landslide with 69% of the vote.
As expected, Democratic candidate Mike Quigley easily beat Republican Roseanne Pulido and Green Party hopeful [...]

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If you have any news about the elections tonight or the results, this is the place to post them.  Hopefully I will be able to liveblog some of it tonight.  If anyone knows where to get election results, that will also be appreciated.
To start off, here’s a recent article about Matt Reichel:

Back at his office [...]

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