Ballot Access News reports that a US District Court decision has put the Green and Constitution parties on the Tennessee ballot. Both parties have in recent years collected thousands of signatures in that state, but failed to make the cutoff which was over 40,000 valid. The most recent Ballot Access News also reports that Americans [...]

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Green Party Watch held a presidential poll with the following results: 1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223 of them, or 68%. Roseanne Barr, who had just entered the race in the last week, picked up 526 votes, or 29%. There were 35 votes for Kent Mesplay, and 8 votes for Harley Mikkelson GPW reports [...]

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Rocky Anderson, the newly formed Justice Party‘s presidential candidate and former mayor of Salt Lake City, is currently answering questions on Reddit.com.  So far he has talked about foreign policy, social spending, and ballot access, including the possibility of the Justice Party suing the state of California in order to obtain ballot access for 2012.  [...]

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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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Rocky Anderson is the former mayor of Salt Lake City.  In August, he denounced and left the Democratic Party.  Earlier this month he announced the formation of a new party, the Justice Party, the nomination of which he’ll be running for.  The party is starting its organizing by recruiting interested volunteers online and attempting to [...]

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Source: Ballot Access News Last night, Ballot Access News appealed for donations and/or pledges to COFOE (the Coalition for Free & Open Elections) for the purpose of making it possible for the Vermont ballot access lawsuit to go forward. In only 12 hours, $615 has been pledged. No money that has been pledged will necessarily [...]

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Damon Eris at Third Party Independent: Since the Occupy Wall Street protests began in downtown Manhattan on September 17th, I have noted on a number of occasions that there is an inspiring amount of independent and third party activity and organizing taking place at the demonstrations.  Members of the Green, Libertarian, Socialist and Reform parties, [...]

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Since our last update: At Ballot Access News: Americans Elect Web Page Posts New National Ballot Access Petition Count The Americans Elect web page now says the group has obtained 1,903,444 signatures on petitions to get on the ballot, so far. This contrasts with the figure of three weeks ago, which was 1,829,264. Elliot Ackerman, [...]

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Ballot Access News reports on Americans Elect petition drives going on in Wyoming, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Montana, South Carolina, and as we previously noted, Rhode Island, Maine, Tennessee, Georgia, Oregon, Colorado, Alabama, and Arkansas (the last one may already be finished; I don’t know whether any of the others are yet). The Ohio Secretary of [...]

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Ballot Access News: On October 7, the very last day for an appeal to be filed in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted, the Ohio legislature filed papers to intervene in the case, and to appeal to the 6th circuit. The Secretary of State doesn’t want to appeal, but the legislature does. First the legislature [...]

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Ballot Access News reports on Americans Elect ballot access efforts in Rhode Island, Maine, Tennessee, and Georgia. They are also petitioning in Oregon, Colorado, Alabama, and Arkansas (the last one may already be finished), Ohio, and possibly in other states. The September 2011 Ballot Access News lists Americans Elect as having already qualified in Alaska [...]

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Recent updates from RJ Harris, a candidate for the LP presidential nomination: * RJ Harris Liberty Team collected nearly 400 signatures on an afternoon at a Oklahoma Sooner football game. RJ Harris and his team had a great time tailgating with fans of the #1 Ranked NCAA Football Team in the Nation. * Recent donors [...]

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Pennsylvania ballot access activists have created an informative video to show people how they can prepare a meeting with their local legislator to discuss ballot access issues, including the Voter’s Choice Act.

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From Philly.com: Candidates seeking the Green imprimatur must attend monthly membership meetings and present their platforms. The members then vote on whether the candidates can carry the banner. For the November election, the party has given its blessing to Cheri Honkala for sheriff and Richie Antipuna for city commissioner. The third Green candidate, Brian Rudnick, [...]

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From an article by Len Lazarick published on June 22, 2011, on MarylandReporter.com: The Libertarian and Green parties regained their official status on election ballots Tuesday after retired Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Eugene Lerner found they had collected enough signatures on petitions. “It is great news for third parties in Maryland,” said Libertarian Party Chairman [...]

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From an article published on BallotAccess.org on June 24th, 2011: On June 23, the Ohio Senate passed HB 194, the Secretary of State’s omnibus election law bill. As mentioned earlier, it moves the primary in presidential years from March to May, and it moves the petition deadline for new party petitions from 120 days before [...]

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Source: Ballot Access News At the end of May 2011, the Socialist Party launched a petition drive to get itself on the Michigan ballot. Probably 2,000 signatures have been collected so far. The law requires 32,261 valid signatures. However, the law also required already-qualified parties to poll only 16,083 votes in November 2010 in order [...]

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Mark Axinn, Chair of the Libertarian Party of New York reports: On June 15, 2011, Albany County Supreme Court Justice Richard Platkin granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the Article 78 challenge to the Board’s final determination of Warren Redlich’s vote total six months earlier on procedural grounds.

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From an article posted on June 9, 201, on BallotAccess.org: On May 30, the Nevada legislature passed AB 81. It injures major political parties, new political parties, and independent voters. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 11-10, with all Democrats voting “yes” and all Republicans voting “no.” Governor Brian Sandoval is a [...]

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CHARLOTTE (June 7) – In a bipartisan 67-50 vote, the state House of Representatives approved a bill to dramatically lower the threshold for a new political party to gain and maintain ballot access in North Carolina. The bill lowers the number of signatures a new party must obtain to 0.25 percent of registered voters. That [...]

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