Jul
30
2011
Source: Ballot Access News
The Knoxville News Sentinel has this story on the new ballot access lawsuit filed two weeks ago by the Constitution and Green Parties. The lawsuit has gained a great deal of publicity. By contrast, when the original ballot access lawsuit was filed in 2007 by three minor parties, it got no publicity at all when it was filed, and even after it won in September 2010, it got very little publicity. Read more »
Jul
30
2011
Source: Ballot Access News
The Center for Voting and Democracy, also known as Fairvote, is a national organization that works for Instant Runoff Voting and proportional representation. It really posted this statement of why it doesn’t also support approval voting. Read more »
Jul
30
2011
Source: Ryan Brennan, ThirdPartyPolitics.us
On July 29, 2011, the Libertarian Party, according to the donation ticker on its homepage, reached half of its 2011 fundraising goal of $400,000. At the time of the writing of this article (July 29, 3:42pm EST), their donation total stands at $204,221.81. Yesterday also saw the Libertarian Party put out a request for donations to help fund ballot access petition drives in New Hampshire and South Dakota. Click here to donate.
Jul
30
2011
Source: Green Party Watch (posted July 28, 2011)
Kaitlyn Foti reports at Chestnut Hill Patch:
Chestnut Hill resident Brian Rudnick is hitting the street, trying in a short amount of time to get the signatures he needs to get on the ballot this November. Read more »
Jul
30
2011
Source: Ballot Access News
Between January 1984 and December 1994, the New Alliance Party published a weekly newspaper, “The National Alliance.” During the entire period of the newspaper’s existence, the masthead listed Jacqueline Salit at the top of the roster as “Executive Editor.” Today, Salit is President of Independent Voting, which holds itself out as the leader of independent voters in the United States, and which teaches that political parties are harmful to society. Read more »
Jul
30
2011
Source: Ballot Access News
This news story, from a blog that covers North Carolina politics, quotes Senator Tom Apodaca, chair of the Senate Rules Committee, as predicting that the legislature will consider ballot access this year. HB 32, which improves ballot access, has already passed the House and the Senate Rules Committee, but it has been unclear when it will go to the Senate. The regular legislative session for this year is already over, but there is a special session; also North Read more »
Jul
30
2011
Source: Ballot Access News
The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. circuit, has set a briefing schedule in Libertarian Party v D.C. Board of Elections, the case over whether election officials must count the votes cast for a declared write-in candidate for President. The three briefs should all be filed by October 25.
The case arose in 2008, when Bob Barr qualified for write-in status, in accordance with the Read more »
Jul
30
2011
Source: Ballot Access News
The July 30 Arizona Daily Star, Tucson’s daily newspaper, has this story about Americans Elect being a qualified party in Arizona. Americans Elect had turned in its party petition in Arizona on April 13, and in June the Secretary of State had said that the petition is valid. The story is interesting because it reveals that the Arizona petition drive used the services of 30 paid circulators. Read more »
