Ballot Access News reports that Cindy Sheehan got only a couple of hundred more valid signatures than required, placing her officially on the ballot.
The Sheehan campaign collected about 20,000 raw signatures, after a last minute push.

San Francisco election officials today certified Cindy Sheehan for the November ballot against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She had [...]

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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 Last Free Voice by Susan Hogarth
The LP’s candidate for governor in NC, Mike Munger, has been formally invited to participate in at least one debate:
WSOC-TV the ABC Affiliate and WTVI the Public Broadcast Station in Charlotte, in partnership with the North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg League of Women Voters extend an invitation for your [...]

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POSTED ON JULY 23, 2008:
McKinney blazes N.C. trail with incendiary speech
By Matt Saldaña
Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has moved from blue to green, and similarly, she demonstrated her move to the left side of the political spectrum in a speech she gave in Durham: “It’s time to [...]

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According to a page at the North Carolina Board of Elections website, Cynthia McKinney is now an official write-in candidate for President.
North Carolina’s ballot access laws are so draconian that the Green Party’s efforts to secure a ballot line in the state have fallen far short of the number set by the state. The [...]

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By way of Ronald Kane Hardy at
Green Party Watch
Article about Albany Alum (and GP VP) Rosa Clemente by Mark Perry in the Times Union:

Rosa Clemente came to the University at Albany at a heady time for minority student activism.
There were demands for more students of color. [...]

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Green presdiential nominee Cynthia McKinney campaigned in Durham, North Carolina, on Tuesday, WRAL.com reported. McKinney “needs 500 signatures of North Carolina voters to be an official write-in candidate on the state ballot in November.”

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In his Greensboro News-Record column, Edward Cone offers “an update on Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger, described last year in this column as ‘maybe too sane for high office’: North Carolinians put the Libertarian Party on the ballot for November, but Munger still is excluded from the gubernatorial debates. Munger’s party has earned the [...]

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A poll taken for incumbent Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina shows Libertarian challenger Chris Cole running at six percent. Dole leads Democrat Kay Hagan 51% to 36%, with seven percent undecided. The Tarrance Group poll conducted July 7-9 has a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percent.

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The North Carolina Green Party learned today that they face a shorter deadline than they had expected to file paperwork to secure a spot for Cynthia McKinney as a write-in candidate. North Carolina will not count write-in votes for candidates who do not submit a petition signed by 500 registered voters.
Until today party leaders [...]

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