Here’s a question for third-party voters of all stripes: When casting your vote for an alternative party candidate, to what extent do you take the candidate’s actual ability to do the job you are selecting them for into account?  Do you think about Charles Jay’s ability to deliver a state of the union address, or [...]

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Zogby and WorldNetDaily have commissioned a poll which will include Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Alan Keyes, and Cynthia McKinney to be performed this weekend. Joseph Farah is the founder and chief-editor of WorldNetDaily, where this story is originating, and is also the self-proclaimed leader of the “None of the Above” movement in 2008, [...]

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Although Ballot-Access News has recently reported that Ralph Nader is only on the ballot in 12 states, this article states that Nader has submitted petitions in as many as 22 and expects to be on the ballot in 45.
Nader’s campaign submitted petitions containing more than 10,000 signatures to the secretary of state’s office Monday. It [...]

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WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah is trying to get voters to write in “None of the Above” in the presidential race this year. His book “None of the Above” will be released later this month.
Farah said, “Coinciding with the release of this book Aug. 19, I will be releasing the results of a scientific poll commissioned [...]

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According to a report at The Hindu News Update Service the Russian writer, considered by many to be one of Russia’s more important writers of the past century, apparently died of a heart attack at his home near Moscow.

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Posted at Ballot Access News
Petitioning candidates for president who filed by the July 28 New Jersey deadline are Bob Barr, Roger Calero, Gloria La Riva, Cynthia McKinney, Brian Moore, and Ralph Nader. Also someone named Jeffrey Boss of Guttenberg, New Jersey, filed under the “Vote Here” Party label. His vice-presidential running-mate is Andrea Maria Boss.
The [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News
Alabama is almost certain to be the only state with no independent or minor party candidates on the ballot this year, for any federal or state office other than president. On July 18, an independent candidate for Governor of North Dakota began circulating his petition. North Dakota had been the only [...]

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IPR was down for close to 24 hours, most of which I spent frantically trying to figure out how to fix things.
Ultimately, I posted the job on GetACoder.com and hired a programmer from Bangladesh to fix it. This is after being on the phone with a U.S.-based techie who couldn’t figure it out for over [...]

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Since IPR’s inception, Third-Party Watch has linked to several of our stories — usually crediting them to Austin Cassidy, whether he wrote them or not. But recently, at least one TPW author has begun copying IPR content and reposting it as his own.
Take for example: Bob Barr contradicts LP: Government ‘has to do something’ to [...]

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“Dr. Death, Jesse the Body and the Peace Mom. Oh, my,” begins “Characters provide 3rd option“, an article published today in The Hill. “A colorful cast of characters is lining up for third-party congressional bids this cycle, and it’s begun to make noise in some of the top races in the country.”
IPR’s own Austin Cassidy [...]

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