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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And here is how it is done. The Republican-appointed “Emergency Manager” of Benton Harbor, Michigan, appointed by the Republican Governor of Michigan, has just dissolved the City Government of Benton Harbor in favor of his personal rule as, oh, we need a title, “People’s Commissar”. Or, if you have an alternative opinion of Republicans “Gauleiter”. [...]

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From Ballot Access News: On April 5, Detroit elected members of Citizens’ District Councils in non-partisan elections. The city has 19 districts for this office, and each district elects six members every year, for three year terms. Each council has 18 members. Matt Erard, a leader of the Socialist Party, was elected this year in [...]

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From an article by Justin Elliott over at Salon.com: This one does not look good for the Democratic Party in Michigan: Two county-level party officials have been hit with felony charges in an alleged scheme to put bogus Tea Party candidates on the ballot to draw votes away from Republicans. (Via Jim Geraghty.) Former Oakland [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch (with amendments from comments): Tuesday Feb 15, the Logan Square Green Party in Chicago Illinois are meeting at the Green Party office on Fullerton Ave. The Northeast Ohio Greens will meet tonight at Mac’s Backs Bookstore 1820 Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights – 7pm-9pm. Wednesday Feb. 16 the Los [...]

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Posted by Paulie: In my last update on Americans Elect I wrote: Jim Cook has updates on Americans Elect activities in Arizona, Nevada and Ohio. The petitioner grapevine has it that Americans Elect petitioning has been completed in Arizona and Kansas, but Nevada is the only state that their signatures have been verified to have [...]

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Originally posted at Green Party Watch: From the GPMI Newsletter, upcoming State & Local Party meetings and events: Detroit Greens are teaming up with Greens in the tri-county area for Metro Detroit Greens Meetings. These meetings give us an opportunity to build on the networking, connections and solidarity we developed in the 2010 elections. WHAT: [...]

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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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Compiled by Brent McMillan and posted at Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy: Wins (including ballot access) on Nov. 2, 2010 – Unofficial Results ARKANSAS Joy Ballard won her race for Saline County Collector, AR. She finished first of seven candidates for one seat with 19,131 votes, 69.28%. Partisan. CALIFORNIA Bruce Delgado won his re-election [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: There are 59 candidates running for the United States House of Representatives on November 2. This is the third of three posts on Green Party House candidates, continuing with the Central portion of the United States. Eastern US GP House Candidates Western US GP House Candidates GP US Senate [...]

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A Detroit Free Press poll has independent conservative Glenn Wilson at 8% in a race with a virtual dead heat between the Republican and Democratic candidates: Detroit Free Press poll: Dan Benishek (R) – 42% Gary McDowell (D) – 40% Glenn Wilson (IND) – 8% Undecided – 10% The poll has a margin of sampling [...]

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From the Detroit News: The Wayne County Clerk’s Office will reprint 27,000 absentee ballots on Monday after a processing error left two candidates from the Green Party entirely off the ballot… Election Day ballots will not be affected, West said. On Friday evening the Green Party of Michigan sent out a press release stating that [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 October 2010 GEORGE ORWELL NOW WORKING AT WXYZ-TV George Orwell was seen alive and well working at WXYZ-TV/Channel 7. Orwell, thought to be dead years ago, is the new director of the TV station’s “Democracy 2010″ project. Orwell, famous for inventing catchy phrases that disguise their true meaning, called Newspeak, took [...]

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Posted by Kyle at LP blog: Republished from the Libertarian Party of Michigan Newsletter You might recall that I wrote about my Libertarian activist "To Do List" for the Spring of this year. Guess what? I also have a "To Do List", to actively support the Libertarian Party in this busy time between now and [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Michigan Green Party recently nominated a number of candidates, including several for statewide office and Congress, bringing the total number of Greens running in Michigan this year to 34. The candidates include Harley Mikkelson for Governor and Lynn Meadows for Lt. Governor, John Anthony La Pietra for Secretary [...]

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From MLive.com (read the full thing here): Fred Strand thinks there’s a place in Congress for a small-town restaurant owner who knows when the price of beer jumps 10 percent and how business reacts to a 6 percent increase for Pepsi… A former Democrat who ran for Congress from Allegan in 1992, Strand is competing [...]

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Ballot Access News reports that “on September 3, the Michigan Supreme Court voted 5-2 not to hear the appeal of the group that tried to get on the ballot as “The Tea Party”. The State Court of Appeals had earlier kept that party off the ballot because most of its paperwork said the name of [...]

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Press release: Monday’s Michigan Court of Appeals ruling that denies ballot qualification to “The Tea Party” might cause voter confusion at the polls at the November General Election this fall. The US Taxpayers Party of Michigan (USTPM) has been a ballot qualified party since its organization in 1982, though then known as the Tisch Independent [...]

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Ballot Access News: On August 30, the Michigan State Court of Appeals ruled that “The Tea Party” should not be added to the ballot because of discrepancies over its name. In many official documents it had said its name is “The Tea Party”. But on the petition sheets, the name of the party is “Tea [...]

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From the Michigan Messenger: via TPID: Now that Stupak’s seat is open, Republicans are eager to win it back, Democrats are struggling to hang on to it, and candidates from outside these parties are trying to get voters to rethink the fundamentals of how government operates. . . . Glenn Wilson, owner of a telecom [...]

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