Source: Americans Elect

Last year, Americans Elect registered as a 501(c)(4) corporation which means Americans Elect is a non-profit organization. And you might be curious: Why is Americans Elect in the same category with social welfare organizations, civic leagues and the like?

One reason is that Americans Elect doesn’t have a product. (Well, other than the Read more »

Source: Constitution Party

by Audrey Queckboerner
Constitution Partyof Indiana, State Chairman

I was reading an online editorial by a Brian Secor about declaring his independence from political parties by joining the tea party. He made reference to how both major parties were once a third party and it’s now time for a third party. He couldn’t be more correct! Unfortunately, though, he has a misunderstanding of the tea party movement. Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

This arrived from Ian Gilyeat, an independent candidate for Senate in AZ:

Personal liberties stand tallest when the right to vote is bound tightly to our consent to be governed. Tragically, in Arizona these personal liberties are becoming unraveled and disconnected from the will of the people. The “unraveling” I refer to is the increasing number of Arizona voters who disconnect Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

During the early summer of 2011, the Americans Elect web page posted a new national signature count for its various statewide petitions every week. This national total represented the sum of how many signatures had been collected around the nation on its various state petitions. But the July 28 posting of 1,747,557 had not been increased since then, during August. But on August 30 Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

Howard Wilson, a long-time Libertarian Party activist in New Hampshire, has this op-ed in the Monitor, the daily newspaper of Concord, New Hampshire. Wilson points out that some of the Republican Party officials who are criticizing the state chair of the Republican Party for signing a Libertarian Party ballot access petition, themselves signed petitions to put Libertarians on the 2010 ballot. The Read more »

Source: Green Party Watch

In Tucson, AZ yesterday a primary for Mayor was held that saw two Greens on the ballot facing off for the right to go to the November General Election. According to Arizona Public Media:

The Green Party also had a primary in the Mayoral race. Mary DeCamp won that race with 312 votes, which amounts to 70.27 percent. She beat long time Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

On August 30, South Carolina held a special election to fill the vacancy in the State House, tenth district. Constitution Party nominee Dave Ballard polled 16.0%; his only opponent, Republican Joshua Putnam, polled 84.0%. See this story. Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

On August 23, a California Superior Court Judge in Solano County dismissed the lawsuit King v Robinson, FCS034452. This is the lawsuit over which faction in the California American Independent Party represents the party. The faction that is allied with the national Constitution Party had filed the lawsuit. That faction is now free to appeal, if they wish to do so. The Superior Court had not actually Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

On August 30, a U.S. District Court Judge listened to testimony in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted. Michael Johnston of the Ohio Libertarian Party, testified for the plaintiffs, and a representative of the Secretary of State provided testimony on the other side. The judge indicated he expects to issue a ruling by Friday, September 2. The issue is whether the new Ohio ballot access law is Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

In Kentucky, Democratic pollster PublicPolicyPolling has a surprising result. From the firm’s Twitter account:

Libertarian candidate for State Treasurer in Kentucky polling at 16%- that says something about voter disgust right now.

The number is remarkable for a third party campaign with weak fundraising Read more »