The North Carolina Libertarian Party will ask the State Board of Elections to conduct a Libertarian Presidential Preference Primary which may be the first in the state’s history. The party’s executive committee directed Acting Chair J.J. Summerell to make the request which must be sent to the SBOE by February 7. The candidates listed will [...]
N.C. Libertarians to Request Presidential Primary
January 23rd, 2012 · 7 Comments
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Jordon Greene: Virginia Primary Law Just One Example of ‘Flawed’ Election Laws
December 28th, 2011 · No Comments
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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Root: The Strike – As Ayn Rand Predicted
June 29th, 2011 · 61 Comments
“…revenues are down dramatically. Coincidence?
Everything happening today under Obama resembles the storyline of Ayn Rand’s famous book, Atlas Shrugged…”
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North Carolina Ballot Access Bill Passes House
June 8th, 2011 · No Comments
As reported at Ballot Access News: On June 7, the North Carolina House passed HB 32, which –if ultimately passed — would lower the number of signatures for previously unqualified parties, and independent candidates. The bill includes lowering some signature requirements from 85,000 currently, to 18,000 for 2012.
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Daren Bakst: Ballot access laws undermine the right to vote
March 20th, 2011 · No Comments
From an opinion article by Daren Bakst in the Beaufort Observer: When you go to the polls in North Carolina, you have less freedom to choose who you want to elect than citizens of virtually every other state. A recent North Carolina Supreme Court decision (Libertarian Party et. al. v. North Carolina et. al.) will [...]
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Editorial by Greensboro NC News & Record: Ballot Access Too Strict
March 18th, 2011 · 4 Comments
From an editorial by the News & Record, of Greensboro NC: Voters deserve choices at the polls, but not too many, the N.C. Supreme Court said in a disappointing ruling last week. The 5-1 decision denied the state Libertarian Party’s challenge to North Carolina’s strict ballot-access law. Oh, but the law isn’t really so strict, [...]
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Brian Irving: NC Libertarians respond to NC Ballot Access Decision
March 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment
March 16, 2011 By Brian Irving The N.C. Supreme Court has upheld the state laws that give North Carolina the second most restrictive ballot access requirements in the nation. The justices ruled 5-1 that they were “not persuaded” that ballot access is a “fundamental right.” “Indeed, ballot access rights, though distinct from voting rights, are [...]
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North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds 2% Petition Requirement for Ballot Access for Alternative Parties
March 13th, 2011 · 4 Comments
Ballot Access News: On March 11, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled 5-1 that the petition to put a new political party on the ballot, 2% of the last gubernatorial vote, does not violate the State Constitution. Here is the 17-page opinion, and the 9-page dissent. For 2012, the law requires 85,379 signatures. Except in [...]
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Thomas Hill: The libertarian message is peace – be it and live it
February 23rd, 2011 · 32 Comments
by Thomas Hill BURNET, Texas (Feb. 23) – Since I signed on as the campaign manager of the Lee Wrights for President Exploratory Committee I’ve taken some heat from some of my radical and anarchist friends in the libertarian movement, people I love and respect, for getting involved in electoral politics. Some of them have [...]
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NC: Groups form Free the Vote Coalition for election law reform
February 8th, 2011 · 3 Comments
via contact.ipr@gmail.com: CHARLOTTE (Feb. 2) – Free the Vote North Carolina announced yesterday the formation of the Free the Vote Coalition, an alliance of the state’s alternative political parties and several electoral reform groups, who have banded together to enact major ballot access reform this year. Rep. Stephen LaRoque will file the Electoral Freedom Act [...]
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Richard Winger of Ballot Access News: IndependentVoting.org is ‘a pressure group working to limit choices on the general election ballot’
December 30th, 2010 · 5 Comments
In over a century of struggle to avoid monopolization of the general election ballot to just the two major parties, there has never been a pressure group that worked in favor of restrictive ballot access laws, until very recently. Leaders of the former New Alliance Party, who have renamed themselves several times, now call themselves IndependentVoting.org. They hold themselves out as the leaders of independent voters, but they have become a pressure group working to limit choices on the general election ballot to just Democrats and Republicans.
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R. Lee Wrights: ‘One million American voted Libertarian’
November 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Press release from the Wrights for President exploratory committee emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: BURNET, Texas (Nov. 9) – The most significant impact of the 2010 elections is neither a mandate for the Republican Party, nor a rejection of the Obama Administration, but in the continued growth of the Libertarian vote at the local, state and national [...]
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More states elected independents to state legislatures this year than in any previous year in at least sixty years
November 9th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Ballot Access News reports: Thanks very much to Morgan Daybell for helping me find instances at which independent legislators were elected or re-elected last week. It appears that independents were elected to state legislators in 2010 in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Vermont. We are still waiting to [...]
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North Carolina Libertarians ‘Bloody But Unbowed’
November 5th, 2010 · 12 Comments
Liberty Point: Libertarian candidates consider election defeats a learning experience, prepare for the next election. Although the results of the 2010 election were a disappointment for North Carolina’s Libertarian candidates because they were not elected, several consider it a very good learning experience and preparation for future campaigns. Dr. Mike Beitler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. [...]
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Liberty Point: Libertarian Mike Beitler asked the hard questions
November 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Brian Irving at Liberty Point: Mike Beitler may not have received as many votes as the polls indicated he would, but he said he’s pleased with the election results because of the campaign staff and organization he’s built. “I am ready to turn this all over to Mike Munger,” Beitler said, referring to the party’s [...]
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Liberty Point: Win or lose, Libertarians make a difference
November 1st, 2010 · No Comments
Brian Irving at Liberty Point: North Carolina’s Libertarian candidates are optimistic that regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s election, their campaigns have made a difference. They are optimistic because of the reaction they’ve received from voters unhappy with the two major parties. “Voters are quite polarized this year, so my results are going to depend [...]
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Rhino Times recommends vote for Libertarian Lon Cecil
October 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments
Staff at LP blog: Lon Cecil is running for U.S. Representative in North Carolina District 12. The Rhino Times, a weekly newspaper in Greensboro, recommends a vote for Cecil in its October 28 issue. Read the article.
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Libertarian candidate Michael Beitler continues to poll 6%
September 21st, 2010 · No Comments
Staff at Libertarian Party blog: Michael Beitler, Libertarian for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, polled 6% in this SurveyUSA poll. Beitler has maintained support at 6% in several polls since June. Beitler received support from 11% of liberals, 5% of moderates, and 5% of conservatives. He was supported by 16% of independents, 5% of Democrats, [...]
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Adam Kokesh Kick-Offs Beitler Fundraiser, Friday September 17
September 15th, 2010 · 11 Comments
Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Dr. Mike Beitler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, announces that anti-war activist Adam Kokesh will be the keynote speaker at his election season kick-off event, to be held on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 7:30pm at the Greensboro Airport Marriott. The Greensboro Airport Mariott was the location of the press [...]
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NC Supreme Court hears arguments in Libertarian-Green ballot access case
September 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
by Brian Irving Raleigh Libertarian Examiner The North Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what could be a landmark ballot access case for the state. The hearing culminated a five-year legal battle by the Libertarian and Green parties to reform the state’s restrictive ballot access laws. Five of the seven justices grilled the attorneys [...]
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