See this interesting post at Independent Political Report, which says that three of the ten sponsors for the Commission on Presidential Debates have withdrawn, due to protests that the Commission stifles free discourse by its restrictive invitation rules. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2012
According to this newspaper story, Republicans in Cincinnati (Hamilton County, Ohio) are expressing unhappiness that the Democratic Party runs candidates in partisan races in the county, even though one particular candidate in particular, Martha Good, has run and lost five … Continue reading
The Lewiston, Maine Sun Journal has this story, on whether it is possible that the Libertarian Party might poll 5% for either President or U.S. Senate. If the party reached that threshold in either race, it would become ballot-qualified for … Continue reading
On September 28, the Federal Election Commission asked the U.S. Treasury to send a second check to the Jill Stein campaign. The second check is for $160,389.13. The first one, received earlier, had been for $100,000. Here is the FEC … Continue reading
One of the less-known federal campaign finance restrictions controls how much money anyone may give during a 2-year cycle to all federal campaigns combined. On September 28, a 3-judge U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., upheld these limits. Here is … Continue reading
The mood strikes me to express my heartfelt gratitude to Eric Garris, who not only acts as the webmaster for Ballot Access News, but pays to have the page hosted, and is constantly on call to help me with technical … Continue reading