In a press release, the Modern Whig Party has announced the addition of a new chapter in Michigan.  That brings their grand total to “12 state affiliates… more than 10,000 official members.”  The press release profiles their new Michigan chairman, Samuel S. Cummings, as,
“an executive in the private security sector and is also a telecommunications [...]

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Press release from the national Green Party
Malapportionment of Electoral College votes may lead to a Republican victory despite the popular vote, disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters, especially black voters in southern states
Green civil action seeks to democratize the Electoral College by enforcing 14th Amendment voter protections, names Vice President Cheney as defendent

WASHINGTON, DC — [...]

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The AP reports Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr will speak today at noon at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The AP says Barr “has emerged as a favorite alternative for people who’d backed Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.”
A mid-July poll showed Barr at two percent in Michigan.

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Close on the heels of his victory in California, where the Peace and Freedom Party just put Nader on the ballot, the Natural Law Party of Michigan just did the same. Ballot Access News reports:
On July 30, 2008, the Michigan Natural Law Party nominated Ralph Nader for president, and submitted the needed paperwork. Nader is [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News

At least ten presidential nominating conventions will be held in August and September:
1. The Peace and Freedom Party meets in Sacramento, California, on August 2-3.
2. The Natural Law Party of Michigan meets on August 9.
3. The Independent Party of Delaware meets on August 16.
4. The Independent/Ecology Party formed this year by [...]

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From a press release issued by his campaign comes news that Socialist Party of Michigan chairman Matt Erard has received the nomination of the Green Party of Michigan for the 53rd State House district. Upon filing his paperwork, Erard became the first MI Green on the ballot this cycle:
Erard, who currently serves as the [...]

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Neil Kiernan Stephenson, a Michigan Libertarian who was a Mike Gravel delegate in Denver, has won an official endorsement from the former Alaskan Senator.
Says Sen. Gravel:
To my supporters and supporters of the National Initiative for Democracy:
I am happy to offer my endorsement of Neil Kiernan Stephenson for Congress in Michigan’s 10th district. Neil has a [...]

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Libertarian for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Scotty Boman, will be joining thousands of Ron Paul “R3VOLutionaries” in a march on D.C. this weekend. Boman, who met and voted for Ron Paul in 1988, was very active in the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign, despite his strong Libertarian pedigree. Boman chaired the effort to get the [...]

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Constitutionalists and Libertarians have always been opposed to the Federal Reserve System. However, in the wake of Ron Paul’s unprecedented exposure of the issue — and the public’s surprising enthusiasm for his anti-Fed rhetoric — CP and LP candidates are giving the issue more prominence in their campaign platforms. Here are what two leading third-party [...]

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The three confirmed candidates to replace Carl Levin as U.S. Senator from Michigan are all courting Ron Paul supporters. The Republican Jack Hoogendyk has his problems from the Paulian perspective, and he seems to be pursuing Paul supporters less aggressively than the Libertarian (Scotty Boman) and the Constitution Party candidate (Mike Nikitin), who are both [...]

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