Source: Ballot Access News
Nooga.com, an on-line newspaper in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has this feature story about the Americans Elect petition drive in that state, including a picture of one of the circulators talking to a voter outside a library. Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
In Virginia, and Indiana, candidates who petition for a spot on a general election ballot have their signatures checked for validity, by government elections officials. But candidates seeking a spot on a partisan primary ballot are treated more leniently. Their petitions are given to their own political party, and political party officials merely look at the petitions to see if, on the surface, they contain enough Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
On October 18, Massachusetts and Minnesota both held special legislative elections. In the Massachusetts State House race (Berkshire Third District), Green Party nominee Mark C. Miller came close to winning. The Massachusetts Secretary of State’s office does not supply semi-official returns on election night. Unofficial returns reported in the press differ with each other. Some sources say Miller lost Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
Americans Elect’s webpage regularly updates the number of signatures that have been collected on ballot access petitions. The current total, posted early this week, is 1,844,938, which is higher by 15,674 signatures than the total posted two weeks ago. Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
Ezra Klein and Matt Miller discuss whether or not a new major political party in the United States would be beneficial, in this post on Ezra Klein’s blog. Both are writers for the Washington Post. Klein does not support the idea of a new party, but Miller does.
Ezra Klein suggests that when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected in Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
The Florida Secretary of State’s web page has a list of qualified parties in the state. See it here. The list was updated on October 14 to delete the 40 parties formed by one eccentric individual. Under the new election law passed earlier this year, parties must have at least three state officers, all of whom must be registered members of that party. Read more »
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