Source: Green Party Watch

The Green Party of Michigan this last weekend nominated 22 candidates for office across the state, from US Senate to local County Commissioner seats. Harley Mikkelson, who had thrown his hat into the Presidential Race, was nominated to run for US Senate. There are also seven candidates for US House of Representative seats.

The Green Party of Michigan also polled its members for Presidential Preference, the Read more »

Source: Green Party Watch

The Georgia Green Party this last weekend elected to send 3 of their 4 Delegates to the Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention to support Roseanne Barr. The fourth Delegate will be supporting Jill Stein.

The Georgia Greens also nominated Cynthia McKinney for Congress, Kwabena Nkromo for State Legislature, and Denice Traina for a County Commission seat. Read more »

Source: Jill Stein for President

Dr. Jill Stein, the victor in the Green Party presidential primaries, this morning issued the following statement about yesterday’s recall elections in Wisconsin:

“For over a year now, the working people of Wisconsin have been under siege by the fossil fuel, mining, and toxic chemical corporations. Yesterday’s recall election was deeply flawed. Thousands of qualified voters were turned away from their Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

Keiko Bonk is the Green Party nominee this year for Hawaii House of Representatives, 20th district. The incumbent in that district, Democrat Calvin Say, is running for re-election. Say has been in the legislature since 1976 and has been Speaker of the House since 1999.

Bonk was the Green Party’s first winner of a partisan election in the United States. She Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

North Dakota holds its primary on June 12. North Dakota is an open primary state. In the secrecy of the voting booth, a voter decides which party’s primary to vote in.

Four qualified parties are printed on the June 12 ballots. As the picture in this article shows, the front of the ballot has the Democratic, Republican, and Constitution Parties. The Libertarian Party column is on the back of the ballot. Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

Gary Kreep is in a virtual tie with Garland Peed for Superior Court Judge, San Diego County, position 34. There are hundreds of thousands of ballots still to be counted in California, and the final election returns won’t be known until the beginning of July. As of 11:45 a.m., Pacific time, the vote tally is Kreep 147,739; Peed 147,683.

Gary Kreep has been the attorney for the American Independent Party of California, both Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

Arizona will hold a primary on August 28 for five political parties to nominate candidates for Congress, state office, and partisan local office. Those five parties are Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Americans Elect.

Two candidates have filed for the Americans Elect primary, each of them running for a seat in Congress. Richard Grayson recently filed to be a declared write-in candidate in Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

The Santa Cruz Sentinel of June 6 has this editorial. It concludes, “Voters who approved the open primary in 2010 probably weren’t intending a message they support the ever more dysfunctional stranglehold the two major parties have on government. But that’s what happened. Third parties nationally and minor parties in California have a purpose: to bring independent ideas and candidates to public attention. Their presence has been Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

In November 2010, under a partisan nominating system, California voters were able to choose between the following candidates for Congress: 53 Republicans, 51 Democrats, 39 minor party nominees, 3 independent candidates, and 14 declared write-in candidates, for a total of 160 candidates.

In November 2012, under Proposition 14, the top-two open primary system, California Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

The title of the article at the Daily Caller is “Roger Stone on Fashion, Nixon, Spitzer, and Gary Johnson.” How could I pass that up?

So what accounts for his affinity for Gary Johnson? Stone — who backed Jack Kemp in the 1988 primary — believes Reagan took the GOP from Wall Street to main street — but that the Bushes gave it back to Wall Street. Read more »