Source: Socialist WebZine (via Independent Political Report)

The threat of war is looming larger than ever before since the Armistice of 1953 between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United Nations. This current state of affairs is largely due to the careless saber rattling of both the US and North Korean governments. The Socialist Party USA remains unequivocally opposed to the use of military action to resolve the present crisis and we condemn any Read more »

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From The Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Liberation News:

To comrade Nicolás Maduro and the people of Venezuela:

It is with the profoundest sorrow that we in the Party for Socialism and Liberation (U.S.) learn of the death of Comandante President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías.

Words cannot describe the enormous blow and loss that we, along with the Venezuelan and Cuban masses and the revolutionary peoples of the world, suffer with his passing. Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

On January 31, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted issued a directive stating that the Constitution, Green, Libertarian, and Socialist Parties are still on the ballot in Ohio, for calendar year 2013. There aren’t many partisan elections in Ohio in 2013, but a few cities have partisan elections. Also it is always possible that the state will have special U.S. House or state legislative elections in 2013, should a vacancy arise. Read more »

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Indiana ballot access laws, since 1983, have been so restrictive, the Libertarian Party is generally the only party that appears on the ballot for statewide office and Congress. No other party, other than the two major parties, has appeared on the Indiana ballot for a statewide office since 2000, when Pat Buchanan petitioned as the Reform Party nominee.

But the petition requirements for legislature aren’t too restrictive, so in 2012 both the Constitution Party Read more »

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Because New York State released its official November 2012 vote tally, the presidential results are virtually complete. Totals appear to be: Barack Obama 65,899,557; Mitt Romney 60,931,959; Gary Johnson 1,275,559; Jill Stein 466,877; Virgil Goode 122,106; Roseanne Barr 67,349; Rocky Anderson 42,518; Tom Hoefling 40,113; Randall Terry 13,104; Richard Duncan 12,543; Peta Lindsay and her stand-in Gloria LaRiva 9,300; Chuck Baldwin 5,017; Will Christensen 4,453; Stewart Alexander 4,430; Read more »

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On December 14, West Virginia and California state elections officials finished tallying the votes, so now all results are in, except that Alaska, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming have not tallied any write-ins for any presidential candidates (although some of those states have tallied the total number of presidential write-ins). Read more »

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On November 26, the Michigan Secretary of State released official election results, including write-in totals for President. Gary Johnson was credited with 7,774 write-ins, the highest number of write-ins ever recorded in Michigan for a presidential candidate in November. The previous record had been Ralph Nader in 1996, who was credited with 2,322 in Michigan.

Michigan did not permit write-ins for president in the general election until 1964, when the Prohibition Read more »

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On November 6, Pat Noble, who is 19 years old, was elected to the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education. The high school is in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Noble defeated an incumbent, Nilsa Samol, by a margin of 53.6% to 46.4%. The high school is over a century old and is considered one of the state’s best high schools; see the wikipedia page about the school here.

Noble has been the Secretary of the New Jersey Socialist Party for several years. Read more »

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On October 22, Suffolk University released a poll for the Ohio presidential race, which asks voters about all seven candidates listed on the ballot. The poll also asks what percentage of voters have heard of the various presidential candidates. See it here. Thanks to Mike for the link. There is so much publicity about Ohio being a crucial state, it is somewhat likely that the minor party vote in Ohio is depressed, relative to the vote in non-swing states. Read more »

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Here is a link to the video of Virgil Goode’s (CP) appearance on The Stossel Show. Here is Gary Johnson (LP). Here is Stewart Alexander (Soc).

Here is a link to a discussion of the show which aired last night (13 Sep 12). The show was dedicated to the discussion of third party candidates.

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