Source: Independent Political Report

IPR contacted the Socialist Equality Party’s presidential nominee Jerry White with three questions about his campaign. Though White did respond initially, party chairman Joe Kishore answered instead.

The Socialist Equality Party is a Trotskyist party affiliated with the International Committee of the Fourth International. In 2008, it nominated Jerry White, who was also the party’s Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

Anthony Wing Kosner has this Forbes column, arguing that a relatively new concept in physics, the Constructal Law, predicts that the U.S. habit of forcing all electoral activity into just two dominant political parties is not sustainable. The Constructal Law is explained in a 2012 book by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane, “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization.” Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

On March 7, attorneys for the Oklahoma State Election Board filed this brief in Libertarian Party of Oklahoma v Ziriax, western district, 5:12-cv-119.
This case already has had a status conference, and the judge had urged both sides to settle the case, which challenges the March 1 petition deadline for new party petitions. The Libertarian Party had then suggested either a 30% cut in the required number of signatures Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

Ohio held its primary for all office on March 6. It is the earliest congressional primary for any state, in 2012. Some Libertarian and Green Party congressional candidates were on their own party’s primary ballot for various U.S. House seats. Others had write-in campaigns in their own primaries, because they did not succeed in getting the needed signatures to appear on their own party’s primary ballots. Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

According to this story, Arthur Jones, who is on the ballot in the Illinois Republican primary for Congress in the 3rd district, is a former National Socialist White People’s Party activist. That is one of the U.S. groups that generally have been considered adherents to Nazi doctrines.

The 3rd Illinois district is now represented by Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski. It Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

Joe Mathews, a California journalist and author, and one of the nation’s leading proponents of Proportional Representation, has this column in Fox & Hounds, suggesting to California Republicans that they advocate proportional representation. As he correctly notes, Republican candidates for California legislature, cumulatively, regularly poll a higher share of the statewide popular vote than the percentage of seats they win. Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

On March 6, Public Policy Polling released a poll showing these results for the November 2012 Maine U.S. Senate race: Independent Angus King 36%, Democrat Chellie Pingree 31%, Republican Charlie Summers 28%, undecided or other 5%.

On the evening of March 5, King said that he will be an independent candidate for U.S. Senate this year. The poll was taken prior to that announcement. The poll’s assumption of Read more »