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September 19th, 2006
A SurveyUSA poll of the Texas gubernatorial race, released Sep. 19, shows these results: Republican Perry 35%, independent Kinky Friedman 23%, Democrat Bell 23%, independent Carole Strayhorn 15%, Libertarian Werner 2%, undecided 2%.
September 19th, 2006
On September 19, the 9th circuit ruled that initiative and recall petitions do not need to be in any language other than English. Padilla v Lever, 03-56259. This decision was by fifteen judges, who reconsidered the earlier decision. The vote was 14-1. The earlier decision, by three judges, had said that such petitions do need to be in the same languages that are used for ballots. California ballots are in English, Spanish and Chinese.
September 19th, 2006
On September 19, a lower Illinois state court ordered the State Board of Elections to certify Joe Parnarauskis for the ballot as the Socialist Equality Party nominee for State Senate, 52nd district. He had collected 4,991 signatures, a very large amount for a state legislative race. 2,985 signatures were needed. The Democratic Party had challenged his signatures, but he had enough valid, except that some of his sheets didn’t have the State Senate district number at the top of the page. However, the text of the petition did include that information. The case is Parkarauskis v Illinois State Bd. of Elections, 2006-mr-499, Sangamon Co. Circuit Court.
September 19th, 2006
New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg will host a fund-raiser for Senator Joseph Lieberman, at the Mayor’s residence, on November 1. He will also speak at a fund-raiser on Lieberman’s behalf in Chicago on October 25. Bloomberg was elected and re-elected Mayor as the nominee of the Republican and Indepencence Parties. Lieberman, as is well known, is running for re-election as an independent candidate.
There has been some speculation recently that Mayor Bloomberg will run for president as an independent in 2008. Bloomberg’s assistance for Senator Lieberman tends to show that Bloomberg is friendly to centrist politicians who run independently of the two major parties.
September 18th, 2006
Although a New Mexico ballot access decision was expected on Monday, Sep. 18, it didn’t come out. It had been expected because the state had said it would start printing overseas absentee ballots on Sep. 18. The decision will determine if the Libertarian Party is on this year’s ballot.
September 18th, 2006
On September 18, the 7th circuit ruled 3-0 that Illinois petition requirements for independent candidates for the legislature are too severe, and are unconstitutional. They required a petition signed by 10% of the last vote cast, due in December of the year before the election. Lee v Illinois State Bd. of Elections. The decision is 17 pages long.
September 18th, 2006
Idaho election law says a party may remain on the ballot indefinitely as long as it continues to run at least 3 candidates (the package of president, vice-president and electors counts as one). This year, the United Party of Idaho (a centrist party, somewhat like the Reform Party) nominated 3 candidates. However, one of them moved out of his legislative district, and was removed from the November ballot. Therefore, the party only has 2 candidates, not 3.
The law also permits a party to remain on the ballot if it polled for any candidate for federal or state office, a number of votes equal to 3% of the vote cast for governor or president (whichever is on the ballot that year). Idaho has two U.S. House districts. The party is not running any candidates for statewide office, but it has an energetic candidate, Andy Hedden-Nicely, running for U.S. House. Therefore, he needs approximately 6% of the vote in his race, to keep his party qualified for 2008 (since the district includes approximately half of the state, it isn’t enough for him to poll 3%; he needs a vote equal to 3% of the vote cast for Governor in the entire state, yet only half the state can vote for Hedden-Nicely).
September 17th, 2006
On September 14, a lower state court struck down Missouri’s new law, which requires voters to show government-issued photo ID before voting at the polls. Jackson Co. v State of Missouri, Cole Co. Dist. Ct. 06AC-CC587.
September 17th, 2006
The Vermont Libertarian Party has 7 candidates for the State House of Representatives this November. Five of them also tried to win major party nominations at the September 12 primary. Four of them managed to do so: Bob Wolffe, David Atkinson, Hardy Macia, and Benjamin Todd. They will be listed on the November ballot as “Libertarian, Republican.” The Libertarian who tried to win a Democratic nomination, Kevin Volz, did not succeed.
September 17th, 2006
At the New York primary on September 12, allies of Lenora Fulani recruited thousands of candidates to run for Independence Party county committees in each borough of New York city. It appears that enough of them were elected, so that Fulani forces will control the Manhatten, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island committees. Earlier this year, the anti-Fulani statewide party leadership dissolved the Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx county committees. However, the state leadership cannot dissolve county organizations if they are “properly constituted” (meaning they elected precinct committeemen in a majority of precincts at a primary election). Therefore, all of these county (borough) organizations will be revived, except for the Bronx one.
Fulani allies are still far from having a majority of the state committee, however.
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2002 Issue
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- October
1, 2002 Issue (V:18 – N:6)
- September
1, 2002 Issue
(V:18 – N:5)
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1, 2002 issue (V:18 – N:4)
- July
1, 2002 issue (V:18 – N:3)
- June
1, 2002 issue (V:18 – N:2)
- May
1, 2002 issue (V:18 – N:1)
- April
1, 2002 issue (V:17 – N:13)
- March
1, 2002 issue (V:17 – N:12)
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1, 2002 issue (V:17 – N:11)
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1, 2002 issue (V:17 – N:10)
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2001:
- December
1, 2001 issue (V:17 – N:9)
- November
1, 2001 issue (V:17 – N:8)
- October
1, 2001 issue (V:17 – N:7)
- September
1, 2001 issue (V:17 – N:6)
- August
1, 2001 issue (V:17 – N:5)
- July
1, 2001 issue (V:17 – N:4)
- June
1, 2001 issue (V:17 – N:3)
- May
1, 2001 issue (V:17 – N:2)
- April
1, 2001 issue (V:17 – N:1)
- March
1, 2001 issue (V:16 – N:12)
- February
1, 2001 issue (V:16 – N:11)
- January
1, 2001 issue (V:16 – N:10)
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2000:
- December
5, 2000 issue (V:16 – N:9)
- November
16, 2000 issue (V:16 – N:8)
- October
1, 2000 issue (V:16 – N:7)
- September
1, 2000 issue (V:16 – N:6)
- August
1, 2000 issue (V:16 – N:5)
- July
1, 2000 issue (V:16 – N:4)
- June
1, 2000 issue (V:16 – N:3)
- May
1, 2000 issue (V:16 – N:2)
- April
1, 2000 issue (V:16 – N:1)
- March
1, 2000 issue (V:15 – N:12)
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1, 2000 issue (V:15 – N:11)
- January
1, 2000 issue (V:15 – N:10)
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- December
1, 1999 issue (V:15 – N:9)
- November
1, 1999 issue (V:15 – N:8)
- October
1, 1999 issue (V:15 – N:7)
- September
1, 1999 issue (V:15 – N:6)
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3, 1999 issue (V:15 – N:5)
- July
3, 1999 issue (V:15 – N:4)
- June
1, 1999 issue (V:15 – N:3)
- May
3, 1999 issue (V:15 – N:2)
- April
3, 1999 issue (V:15 – N:1)
- March
6, 1999 issue (V:14 – N:12)
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6, 1999 issue (V:14 – N:11)
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8, 1998 issue (V:14 – N:8)
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10, 1997 issue (V:12 – N:13)
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10, 1997 issue (V:12 – N:12)
- January
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12, 1996 issue (V:12 – N:10)
- November
12, 1996 issue (V:12 – N:9)
- October
12, 1996 issue (V:12 – N:8)
- September
9, 1996 issue (V:12 – N:7)
- August
12, 1996 issue (V:12 – N:6)
- July
20, 1996 issue (V:12 – N:5)
- June
26, 1996 issue (V:12 – N:4)
- May
28, 1996 issue (V:12 – N:3)
- May
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- April
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- Here's information
on Presidential Ballot Access as well as the
vote totals of recent Presidential elections.
- Here are some other
sites which may also be of interest:
Project
Vote-Smart
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Project Vote
Smart is a citizens' organization dedicated to serving all Americans
with accurate and unbiased information for electoral decision-making.
It was inaugerated in 1992 by former US Presidents Jimmy Carter,
Gerald Ford, and other leaders. Its webpage offers information
about all ballot-listed candidates for all federal and state office.
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- The
ACE Project
- An interesting
site concerning itself with the "Administration and Cost of Elections",
including issues of fairness and regulatory approaches in various
countries. They seem to be almost blind to the ways that third parties
in the USA are harmed by campaign finance rules crafted for the
problems characteristic of the larger parties, or the ways that
third parties would be disenfranchised by various proposed rules,
but this is nevertheless a useful resource, particularly for the
international comparisons it makes.
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- "Unofficial"
B.A.N. Page
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At first,
it looks like there's not much here. But then you follow the "Charts"
link, and click on one of the listed candidates, and you'll get
some truly wonderful nationwide maps of voting patterns.
[Checked:991014]
- ThirdPartyNews.net
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A site that
covers news about minor parties.
[Checked:060414]
- Third
Party Central
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Collects lots
of good information and links relating to various third parties
into one convenient location. Nice set of writings on why one
should vote third-party.
[Checked:991014]
- Atlas
of U.S. Presidential Elections
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A surprisingly
complete listing of votes cast in Presidential elections, including
numerous third-party candidates and nice maps of vote distribution
by state and (on the individual state pages) by county.
[New-URL:010309]
- D.C.'s
Political Report
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Very good
presentation of candidate and party information, including virtually
every known third-party group in the USA. Election results, candidate
information, etc.
[Updated:991214]
- Initiative
For Texas
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A group trying
to establish the right to Initiative and Referendum in Texas.
Their work has intriguing parallels and overlaps with ballot access
work. Every page at the site seems to have some music on it, which
can get annoying after awhile, but otherwise it's an interesting
site.
[Checked:991014]
- Center
for Voting and Democracy
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Folks concerned
with alternative voting systems, and related issues, from a moderately
leftist perspective. Useful articles describing how better systems
of voting and electing actually work.
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