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South Carolina has a very easy requirement for a ballot-qualified party to remain on the ballot. It must merely run at least one candidate for any partisan office, at least once every other election year. The Independence Party of South Carolina recently nominated a candidate for the U.S. House, First District, insuring that [...]

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Posted on the Independence Party of Minnesota website
Srp Website is up. Check it out!
by Laura Kundsen

Mayor Roy Srp’s Senate District 26 special election website is up and running. The election is just four weeks away on January 26th. WIth your support, this is the start of a ground breaking year for the Independence Party.

Pawlenty: Waseca [...]

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On December 16, a U.S. District Court Judge issued an opinion in MacKay v Crews. He ruled that the 2008 national convention of the Reform Party in Texas was a valid convention. Therefore, the national officers elected at that convention are the rightful holders of the party’s trademarks and logos. Those officers are: chair David Collison, vice-chair Rodney Martin, secretary Janelle Skinner-Weill, and treasurer Beverly Kennedy.

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“The [New York City Campaign Finance] Board finds that political contributions made by Bloomberg, and all candidates, with their personal funds to political committees that support candidates in New York City and throughout New York State are campaign expenditures in furtherance of their campaigns.”

“The Board has never previously clarified for candidates that they must report to the Board political contributions made with personal funds. Therefore, candidates – including Bloomberg – who have not reported these political contributions for the 2009 election cycle will not be found in violation of the Act or Board Rules…”

As noted by political blogger Elizabeth Benjamin, this decision reflects contributions and candidates related to NY’s Republican Party, Independence Party, and Working Families Party.

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The Tuesday, November 3, 2009 New York City Mayoral ballot will include eight candidates. This post lists all ballot-qualified candidates for NYC Mayor, Comptroller, and Public Advocate, with links.

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Nassau County Democratic Party leader Jay Jacobs will soon be moving to the position of Democratic Party Chair for all of the New York State. Jay Jacobs has hinted that he wants to end the policy of fusion (cross-endorsement) in New York. Richard Winger of Ballot Access News and Ian Wilder of onthewilderside both commented on the situation.

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After a Democratic committee person challenged the petitions of all of the county-wide Libertarian candidates in Suffolk County, and the Democrat and Republican controlled Board of Elections ruled all those candidates off the ballot, Libertarian candidate for District Attorney Chris Garvey notes, “We will have a Soviet-style ballot in Suffolk.”

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An article about the line-up in the Suffolk County elections, highlighting races with third party and independent candidates.

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Elizabeth Benjamin reports on all the candidates who filed in person, on time, for Mayor of New York City. It appears that the Libertarian mayor candidate hopeful has not filed (although petitions could still arrived that were mailed by the deadline.) Filing so far are: Reverend Billy Talen, Green Party; Jimmy McMillan, the Rent is Too Damn High Party; Alan S. Chusid, Messianic Party; and Mayor Bloomberg, on the “Jobs and Education” line (though, Bloomberg also petitioned for the Republican and Independence Party lines.

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The New York Independence Party announced it will support Republican Dede Scozzafava in the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. The party, which has about 20,000 registered members in the district, had planned to back Democrat Darrel Aubertine until he announced Thursday that he would not be seeking the seat.
Independence Party State [...]

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Newsday reports on its website that Independence Party of America National Chairman Frank MacKay will be in Alaska later this month when Gov. Sarah Palin formally leaves office. Calling it a “bizarre coincidence,” MacKay said he arranged the trip before Palin announced her decision to resign. He “would not saying who he is [...]

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Billionaire businessman and former New York Governor candidate Tom Golisano has recently moved to Florida. There are rumors that he is contemplating a run for Florida’s US Senate seat.

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New York State Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay has been named to Touro Law Center Board of Governors.

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In her daily political round-up for the Daily News, Elizabeth Benjamin points to a piece by Steve Kornacki at Politickerny which gives an excellent explanation of the pros and cons of third party fusion in New York, and what NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s cross-endorsments mean in political terms.

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A truly trans-partisan man, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has moved from being a registered Republican to an independent while in office, and has ran on the Republican, Independence, and Liberal Party ballot lines.  Now he is seeking the nomination of the Working Families Party, which usually cross-nominates Democrats and occassionally runs their own candidates.  However, Bloomberg [...]

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