Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com and posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Reichel claims debate victory; Admonishes Mainstream Press for Failing the Public This Wednesday, the four contenders for the now-vacant 47th ward aldermanic seat met in a packed gymnasium at Coonley Elementary School, and discussed a number of issues ranging from TIF’s to environmental [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: After the announcement of incumbent alderman Gene Schulter’s departure from the 47th ward aldermanic election, Green Party candidate Matt Reichel has pronounced himself the favorite: “I am the only remaining candidate who has been actively campaigning and organizing in this ward for nearly two years, as part of my congressional campaign. “ [...]

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From MySuburbanLife.com: Berwyn, IL —Rita Maniotis knew that running a campaign for school board in Morton High School District 201 would be  difficult, but she didn’t anticipate a legal fight just to get on the ballot. Paul Nosek of Berwyn and Alejandro Rueda of Cicero have filed a formal objection to Maniotis’ nominating papers and [...]

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The following press release was sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Free and Equal Elections Foundation held a press conference yesterday at 1pm to introduce the language for a proposed ballot access bill. State representative Jim Watson (R-97, Jacksonville) has expressed interest in sponsoring the proposed bill. If passed, the bill would open Illinois elections, improving democracy for [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Free and Equal to Reveal Language in Proposed Illinois Ballot Access Bill Will Hold Press Conference Tuesday in Springfield The Free and Equal Elections Foundation will hold a press conference on Tuesday to introduce the language for a proposed ballot access bill. The press conference will be held in the press room [...]

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Although a non-partisan race, the Green Party has endorsed Alberto Bocanegra for aldmerman in Chicago’s 12th ward.  His campaign sent the following press release to contact.ipr@gmail.com: BOCANEGRA CATCHES CARDENAS USING CITY RESOURCES TO PROMOTE CAMPAIGN Alberto Bocanegra, candidate for Alderman in the 12th Ward, has exposed a glaring ethics violation by his opponent, incumbent George [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com and posted at TPID: Matt Reichel, two-time Green Party nominee for Congress in Illinois’s 5th District, has announced to supporters that he will try to unseat 9-term alderman Gene Schulter in the upcoming municipal elections. Reichel won about 1,000 votes in the 47th ward part of the 5th district in last week’s [...]

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Via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: This list was put together by Brent McMillan, consisting of Green Party campaigns for State House (or Assembly) seats. It includes all of the races that finished with over 15% of the vote in 2010: Mark Miller for State Representative 3rd Berkshire District, MA 4,459 votes 45.0% Jeremy [...]

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Ballot Access News: In the aftermath of the November 2010 election, 35 states plus the District of Columbia have at least one ballot-qualified party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties. This is the highest such number, immediately after a midterm election, for any election since 1918. The 15 states without a ballot-qualified party (statewide), [...]

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Lauri Apple in the Chicago Reader alternative weekly: The Libertarian Party of Illinois ran a full slate of candidates this year, with a guy named Lex Green at the top of the ballot. A “Green” Libertarian? Confusing! No wonder they didn’t meet the five percent threshold required to more easily get on the ballot in [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Illinois Green Party candidate for Governor Rich Whitney led all Green Party gubernatorial candidates in 2010 in total votes and percentage of the total vote, with 99,625 votes, 2.70% of the vote. Only three times in history have Green Party gubernatorial candidates exceeded 10% of the vote. The first [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: From Illinois Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney: November 4, 2010 – 12:34 am Don’t Lose Heart! Cause for Hope Amidst the Disappointment A “Final” Campaign Message (But Read On!) by Rich Whitney, 2010 Green Party Candidate for Governor To the hundreds of people who supported me in my [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch The eleven Green Party candidates on the ballot this year for US Senate netted a combined half million votes. The 510,000 votes is the highest combined total for Green Party Senate candidates since 2000, when Medea Benjamin won 326,000 votes for US Senate in California and Vance Hansen picked [...]

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From the Lone Star Report via TPID: It’s true that Texas Democrats did not file a candidate in the race for Comptroller, leaving only Republican incumbent Susan Combs versus two third-party candidates. But that doesn’t mean this race doesn’t represent a loss for Democrats (at least, in future elections). We previously reported that if the [...]

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According to the New York Times election results board, with 100% of precincts reporting, only 0.5% separates the Democratic and Republican candidates. Additional votes which may be counted, such as provisional ballots, make this race too close to call. Tom Horner of the Independence Party got 11.9% in this race, with several other candidates in [...]

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Austin Cassidy reports at Uncovered Politics that the New York Taxpayers Party will probably not qualify for a ballot line: In New York, which allows fusion, it seems that finding statewide results broken down by party is nearly impossible. The state’s Board of Elections certainly doesn’t do it. Their idea of election night reporting is [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Despite having a number of promising campaigns for state legislature in various states, Greens fell short of victory in every race – a few by painfully close margins. However, one former Green running for state legislature as an independent in Maine did win. In Maine, Fred Horch of Brunswick [...]

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ilgp.org: [wp_campaign_2] We have reports from multiple precincts that Rep. Berrios is delivering pastries to election judges – which is technically legal – but the pastries are emblazoned with her campaign stickers – which is NOT. That’s illegal electioneering, and because of the way it’s being done, it’s easy to imagine why election judges might [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Illinois Green Party is covering Election Day happenings with a live blog at their website. After it was revealed recently that Chicago voting machines were identifying Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney as “Rich Whitey”, it should be interesting to read about any other “irregularities” that might occur. [...]

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From a sampling of voter responses compiled by Phil Dotree at Yahoo News: “(Democrat gubernatorial candidate Pat) Quinn wants to raise taxes. He won’t get the votes. (Republican candidate Bill) Brady says he’ll never raise taxes. He’ll just cut spending. How will that work when they can’t afford to pay anybody now? I voted Green [...]

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