From an article at the Examiner.com: Roger J. Stone Jr, the celebrated political consultant, lobbyist and strategist, and youngest staffer on Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign, announced Wednesday that he has quit the Republican Party.  Stone – who has been noted for his use of opposition research for Republican candidates – is now registered as [...]

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From an email sent to IPR: Dear IPR, I know the Gary Johnson / LP thing is brewing and thought [some of the IPR readership] might be interested in my two cents. I used to be a fan of Gary Johnson. This arose mainly out of his public opposition to the War on Drugs. Even [...]

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Found in Dr. Tom Stevens’ blog, Liberty Lion It is very hard to know what people think about Muslims and Islam and whether they harbor prejudices. It is even more difficult to know the motivations behind actions taken that could be perceived by some to reflect negative opinions or sentiments about certain groups of people. [...]

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Mark Axinn, Chair of the Libertarian Party of New York reports: On June 15, 2011, Albany County Supreme Court Justice Richard Platkin granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the Article 78 challenge to the Board’s final determination of Warren Redlich’s vote total six months earlier on procedural grounds.

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Between Roger Stone, Guilderland politics, income taxes, and the cold weather, Warren Redlich has had enough. Reid Epstein of Newsday reports: Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party ‘s 2010 candidate for New York governor, said he is moving to Florida because of fliers that attacked him during last fall’s campaign. As a result, he said he [...]

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From New York LP chair Mark Axinn via LP blog: Libertarian Party Candidate Files Lawsuit against NYS Board of Elections for Failure to Count Votes Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Governor of New York in the 2010 election, today filed a lawsuit in Albany County Supreme Court against the New York State Board [...]

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On December 13, 2010, the NYS BOE certified the election results from the November elections. The Libertarian Party did not receive the 50,000 votes for Governor needed to become ballot-qualified. This post also gives the election results for the other third party Governor candidates in New York.

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In NY State, a party must receive 50,000 votes for Governor in order to gain automatic ballot status (and have its party name appear on the voter registration form.) News that the NYC vote tally is 17% higher than first reported, bodes well for the Libertarians, whose candidate, Warren Redlich, was close to the 50,000 mark.

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Eric Sundwall in the Examiner: While some partisans lick their chops in anticipation of their new political spoils and others their wounds from electoral battle, Libertarian Party members of NY and activists are scrambling to determine if in fact they may have ballot status. Reminded of the 1998 effort of the Working Families Party that [...]

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Poli-Tea: For now, an overview of some significant results from the 2010 elections: • Rhode Island has elected its first Independent governor, Lincoln Chafee!  • In Maine’s gubernatorial race, Independent candidate Eliot Cutler’s last minute surge was not enough to overcome the gap between himself and the Republican front-runner.  Cutler lost by under two percentage [...]

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The Board of Elections in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York posts results as they come in from the precincts. By studying the sets as they come, and looking when it was at 1.15%, and now up to 3.82%, many of the third party candidates are hovering at about the 1% mark.

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Jimmy Vielkind, Albany Times-Union: Third-party protests. If you consider the system a farce, the campaign bogus, our government a joke, then give it the leader it deserves: Jimmy McMillan. I can think of no better embodiment of a protest vote than him. And more seriously: the other third-party candidates like Warren Redlich, Howie Hawkins, Charles [...]

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